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The US government says it ran a $US587 billion budget deficit for the
fiscal year, which was a 34% increase over last year. Deficits have
simply become a standard way of life for Western governments as a whole.
They see no problem with borrow more each year when they have
absolutely no intention of ever paying anything off. Deficits have
become an intractable part of government while nobody bothers to address
it. This is just a mid-slinging contest of he said she said.
Of course I get rabid emails from Hillary supporters who have just
lost their mind. Nothing of what she has done would ever cause them to
blow the cobwebs from that portion of the brain that is suppose to
handle logic and reason. Nobody addresses anything of substance or
explain how Hillary, the poster child of the establishment, would
actually make any financial difference other than raise taxes. As long a
anyone who seems to have more than they do are punished for their
success, then all is good to them and to hell with the future. Of
course, Trump says he would renegotiate the national debt as any big
borrower would do. Other than that, we are in a runaway train and we
will run out of tracks pretty soon.
The latest figures of the budget deficit show that the government is
actually borrowing 15 cents of every dollar it spends. So as government
spending increases by almost 5% reaching $US3.9 trillion in fiscal 2016,
revenues have remained flat at $US3.3 trillion. The further taxes are
raised, the greater the decline in disposable income, and hence it
produces deflation even as the quantity of money rises.
We can see that the Budget itself did a slingshot move first running up
into an all-time high in 2000, and then it swung sharply down for 8.6
years bottoming in 2009. However, the Budget has been unable to move
back to a surplus and as such it is now poised to to head sharply lower
once again. The crash and burn is beginning.
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