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Elon Musk says there's substantial ignorance about America's national debt

Business magnate Elon Musk, who has been sounding the alarm about America's gargantuan, ever-expanding national debt, claimed that many people are unaware of the problem.

"A significant % of people don’t even know that there is such a thing as a national debt!" Musk declared in a post on X.

"Those that do often don’t know how big it is or that our interest payments now exceed what we spend on our military. Only a small % understand that government overspending causes inflation," he added.

The national debt has soared past $36 trillion.

"America is going bankrupt fast," Musk warned in another post.

"The excess government spending is what causes inflation! ALL government spending is taxation. This is a very important concept to appreciate. It is either direct taxation, like income tax, or indirect via inflation due to increasing the money supply," he asserted in a tweet earlier this month................

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/elon-musk-says-theres-substantial-ignorance-about-americas-national-debt

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Re: Elon Musk says there's substantial ignorance about America's national debt
« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2024, 01:25:39 pm »
Sit a spell on https://usdebtclock.org/ and its pretty obvious that the US governments, state, local, and federal are running on borrowed time.