• 9point6@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Government debt isn’t inherently bad.

    For example, Infrastructure projects typically pay back several times in value, so it’s often sensible to fund these using debt. China has built shitloads of infrastructure over the past couple of decades

    Government debt is bad if it’s not funding infrastructure and is instead being used to pay for things like tax breaks on the wealthy and vanity projects

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      10 hours ago

      That’s the reason the US is in a downfall, anytime we have a infrastructure project (i.e California’s train) the government shuts it down due to cost, they think about now and not long term.