☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlM to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoThe US national debt is already grown by $1 trillion in a monthlemmy.mlimagemessage-square65fedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down116file-text
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minus-squareredtea@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoIs there a way of getting a surplus without having a debt? This is not a rhetorical question.
minus-squarechaorace@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoDepends on how you define debt, I suppose? Under a strict definition like “money that you’ve explicitly agreed to repay to a lender in the future”, the answer is simple: “take money without agreeing to repay it” (e.g.: taxes, liquidations, nationalization).
Is there a way of getting a surplus without having a debt?
This is not a rhetorical question.
Depends on how you define debt, I suppose?
Under a strict definition like “money that you’ve explicitly agreed to repay to a lender in the future”, the answer is simple: “take money without agreeing to repay it” (e.g.: taxes, liquidations, nationalization).