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The US national debt is already grown by $1 trillion in a month (lemmy.ml)
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https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/debt-to-the-penny/debt-to-the-penny

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[-] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 years ago

Is there a way of getting a surplus without having a debt?

This is not a rhetorical question.

[-] chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 years ago

Depends on how you define debt, I suppose?

Under a strict definition like "money that you've explicitly agreed to repay to a lender in the future", the answer is simple: "take money without agreeing to repay it" (e.g.: taxes, liquidations, nationalization).

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