• @catloaf@lemm.ee
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    97 days ago

    it might shave a couple thousand dollars off a multi-trillion dollar deficit

    Maybe on one balance sheet. On the total accounting of the nation, this will be harmful.

    • Raltoid
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      7 days ago

      That’s how modern businesses people think though: As long as their department has green numbers, they literally don’t care if their actions cause the company a a whole to collapse. And these guys are trying to run a country like a business.