02-19-2025, 07:12 PM
This post was last modified: 02-19-2025, 07:13 PM by UltraBudgie.
This ignores the fact that money is liquid. Money is money, whether it is accounted for by uncovering graft, eliminating extraneous positions, or (if you're the federal government) simply printing it out of thin air.
This proposal is exactly equivalent to Congress simply passing a tax clawback, without having to justify it by "we found the money under the mattress". That's simply a PR stunt.
Just "use" the money by not borrowing as much each year to fund the federal budget deficit. This stunt is like someone yelling "yahoo! I'm rich!" and giving all their friends $100 and buying everyone rounds of drinks, and then you find out they became "rich" by getting a $10,000 cash advance from their credit card.
There's no "surplus money" without an overall budget surplus. Grow up.
Edit: Autocorrect wrote "budget defecate" instead of "budget deficit", but perhaps that wasn't really an error.
This proposal is exactly equivalent to Congress simply passing a tax clawback, without having to justify it by "we found the money under the mattress". That's simply a PR stunt.
Just "use" the money by not borrowing as much each year to fund the federal budget deficit. This stunt is like someone yelling "yahoo! I'm rich!" and giving all their friends $100 and buying everyone rounds of drinks, and then you find out they became "rich" by getting a $10,000 cash advance from their credit card.
There's no "surplus money" without an overall budget surplus. Grow up.
Edit: Autocorrect wrote "budget defecate" instead of "budget deficit", but perhaps that wasn't really an error.
