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    US Dollar

    It hasn't really hit consumers yet. Some prices are up, but not the things you would expect. Beef and electricity are both up, even though that should be domestic stuff. I haven't priced booze yet - it's not normally on my shopping list - but I would expect that to be dirt cheap. The effects...
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    Is it good to wage war against the United States government?

    In the past few days, trump has invested $100 million in bonds. At the same time he's using his office, angling to get interest rates lowered. trumpcoin. trump merch. trump University. trump Bibles. Selling pardons. Selling overpriced apartments to foreign oligarchs. Charging the SS to stay at...
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    Is it good to wage war against the United States government?

    No, you are supposed to condemn him because he's the most corrupt of them all. By far.
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    Privatizing Social Security: How would it work in practice?

    We're not lecturing you for not "going along." We're lecturing you for arguing without any knowledge of accounting. When you get to the point of having a cursory knowledge of accounting, you let us know, OK?
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    Is it good to wage war against the United States government?

    Yeah, no. The paychecks aren't great; normally less than similar jobs in the private sector. And the fact that longtime bureaucrats served under different administrations makes your claim of moving up via political connections look ridiculous. The government picks their workers more...
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    Is it good to wage war against the United States government?

    You basically described an authoritarian government there. Bureaucrats are not in it for the politics, they are in it for the paycheck. That's a good thing. You do your job, correctly and competently, and the gears run smoothly. Same workers for 20+ years, spanning R and D administrations...
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    Is it good to wage war against the United States government?

    What is the government without employees?
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    Inflation Reduction Act: "We Are Dropping Trillions Of Dollars On The Streets Of America Right Now"

    I tried to discuss this with you, and you gave up.
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    Privatizing Social Security: How would it work in practice?

    Asset/liability pairs are a very basic part of double-entry accounting. Everything E4E has said is correct. Look, I understand that federal finance isn't everybody's thing, and I don't expect most people to understand it right away, but calling everything you don't understand fabricated isn't...
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    Privatizing Social Security: How would it work in practice?

    Based on common sense. Look around. All of that stuff you fail to see is infrastructure. Highways, airports, subways, trains, ports, courts, cops, etc. How much productivity do you think there would be without that stuff? When a private business fails, people and/or banks lose money...
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    Privatizing Social Security: How would it work in practice?

    Once again, you focus on the crumbs and don't bother looking at the loaf. The vast majority of government investment is positive. If you want 100% efficiency, it only exists in your imagination. That includes the private sector. What's the failure rate of new businesses, anyway?
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    Donald Trump's Big Gay Government

    Here's some interesting history from a couple of old D.C. insiders.
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    Privatizing Social Security: How would it work in practice?

    No, I don't agree. FFS, you always do this; you ask a vague question, I try to answer it honestly and accurately, and you take the extreme possibility as the inevitable outcome. Like I said already, our currency is measured against all other currencies, and all currencies are under the same...
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    Privatizing Social Security: How would it work in practice?

    A "hedge" just recognizes that there could be a range of outcomes. Probably a loss of relative value on the FOREX market. Of course, all currencies share the same problem to some degree. So tell me why you want to extinguish government liabilities in the first place.
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    Privatizing Social Security: How would it work in practice?

    To some reasonable degree? Yes.
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