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- From: kevin@drogges.tti.com (Kevin Carothers)
- Subject: Re: "Death of America"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.171659.18729@ttinews.tti.com>
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- References: <1992Dec14.224955.7981@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:16:59 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec14.224955.7981@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> spm2d@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Steven Miale) writes:
- %
- %Today I mourn the economic death of America.
- %
- %We're on a collision course with the national debt. In a few years, on the
- %current course, 100% of tax payments would be required to pay the interest
- %on the debt alone. When investors in US government bonds finally start
- %to panick (read: come to their senses about our political reality), we'll
- %finally face reality. There really is no room to maneauver: whatever
- %parameter we change in order to get out of this, there will be some kind of
- %disaster. Unlike the 1950's, the world market has fundamentally changed and
- %we can no longer grow our economy out of the debt.
- %
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- Says who. You?
-
- You think the national debt is bad? Look at the CONSUMER debt! It was
- something like 12 trillion in 1990.
-
- Sure, the gov't is following a liberal spending policy. But I can guarantee
- that they won't arrive at the gates of hell alone :-).
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- Increasing tax receipts and decreasing spending was Perot's big picture.
- Clinton tends to favor increasing receipts from a growing economy.
-
- The National debt is simply the difference between receipts and expenditures,
- and NOTHING else. ANY method can be used to reduce (or eventually elimiinate)
- it.
-
- Unless you show evidence that economic growth can't work to reduce the debt,
- I can't give much creedence in what you say.
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- Kevin Carothers {psivax,philabs,retix,quad1}!ttidca!kevin
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