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  • There's nothing barbaric about blowing your own brains out to save a few bucks! This is America!

  • based

  • Right and as the fed types numbers in to appease congresses drunk spending, inflation goes fucking haywire and we're all stuck with stagnant wages from 2005 and stock indexes at all time highs

  • No im concerned that we came together and made a budget that's like 20% military 20% interest 40% boomer care and 20% rich people hand outs. Are we dumb?

  • Hopefully the social security kicks in soon, or you're not that old! If you're looking to buy a house I think there are some tax loopholes for using retirement savings. I'm sure trump and his cronies would also love to relieve you of your retirement in some diabolical way. So I'm guessing your job market is fucked too?

  • I sure do enjoy a democracy even if I have to vote with glass lickers.

  • fair enough. I'd argue that news articles really fail to capture some of the real politics and worthwhile discussions. There's a reason why the rightwing media bought up all the local news agencies.

  • I mean im pro government too. Order is one of the bonuses of living in a society.

  • I've got my eyes on that possibility as well. Although right now im kinda thinking they just dump crypto because they couldn't sell the dream fast enough. Crypto might just be used to grift the crypto investors and not the entire globe. Time will tell.

  • that's the day when they stop trading with us, and mango seems to be working hard on bringing that day.

  • I wish it was a joke, they just did that with the Big beautiful bill last year. It's not an ideal way to use them and probably should be banned.

    Japan/china hold US bonds because its makes for easy trading, it stabilizes the currency exchange market and allows for large payments to be made without much fuss. The only reason why they want our bonds is because we trade so much. chinas mechanism of controlling the exchange rate is the same as the US, we both like to just print more money. National bank buys bonds to stabilize market. anyway most of the time the bonds are held to avoid exchange rates. They themselves becoming a medium of trade like cash between nations.

    Of course we don't need to issue bonds at all for funding, again they are just a useful tool for global investing and trade. They get abused and extorted like any other financial market. christ imagine if we were using silver as a medium of exchange. their not really something I'd spend much effort defending politically, but economically idk I invest in them. They were kinda nice back when the federal government functioned

  • It's the number one reason I can't move to Texas. That property tax is insane, ya'll think you're California or something. Like you got public services or something.

  • Lmao is that what got removed from my last post? Im trying to gauge sentiment here and this is a reading.

  • Totally necessary when you need to finance 10 Trillion dollars in tax cuts for the rich over 10 years. They also bolster international trade so it's not all bad. Issuing bonds for infrastructure with built in returns for example good use of leverage and tax payer dollars.

  • Mods don't want us discussing what our back up plans are for job loss. But if you lost your job today, what job would you apply to on indeed, and would there be enough money from that job to pay your current bills? Do you think there is security in your job market if you lose your job?

  • Seems like the US consumer is stuck between a government with drunk spending, and a ton of debt. Next to a corporation who's squeezed every last penny out of people between wages and costs of goods and services. If GDP is to increase enough to pay off the debt, how does that happen? The only GDP growth comes from sucking up wages and monopolizing, and good old government spending.

  • im on the damn east coast! near a bunch of ports. Dunno why its so high in Maine it might just be state taxes kicking ass.

  • Yea but here's the thing I spend about $400 a year on gas and $2,200 a year on property tax. and my state give me money back for being poor so +$1300. You guys have good jobs tho so idk it's a toss up.

  • politics @lemmy.world

    Interest on the $38.8 trillion national debt has tripled since 2020, and it already costs taxpayers more than defense and Medicaid

    fortune.com /2026/03/02/how-much-interest-on-national-debt-do-taxpayers-pay/
  • I was hoping last years shenanigans would have pushed Europe away from our tech companies. I don’t see much hope unless we can elect a new Congress that is willing to do Monopoly busting across the board.

  • News @lemmy.world

    Democats filibuster medicaid cuts for 12 hours live.

    www.c-span.org /event/us-senate/us-senate/432077
  • Astrophotography @lemmy.world

    Aurora storm over Maine

  • Astrophotography @lemmy.world

    Aurora over Cadillac Mountain

  • Astrophotography @lemmy.world

    Northern lights. Northern Maine.