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US government interest expense shot up over the past four quarters in line with higher interest rates and the ballooning pile of debt. A high interest-expense burden might be the only discipline left that will put some common sense into these people in Washington

May 30, 2023 9:49 am

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The Greatest Burden Is On The Poor And Working Class

October 14, 2022 12:06 amOctober 13, 2022 12:31 pm

by sublimeinslime US rents rose by an average of 7.8 percent in September, meaning they are still a whopping 25 percent up since before the pandemic. Wages have failed to keep pace, meaning that renters are ‘feeling the squeeze’ – …

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End the Federal Student Loan Program and put the burden on colleges and universities to grant student loans on their big, fat endowments

August 25, 2022 10:07 pm

by Lepew1 Biden’s inexcusable action yesterday shows why we can not have federal programs that go beyond the enumerated power authority. They always become political footballs at the expense of the American taxpayer. Ordinarily decisions involving the expenditure of taxpayer …

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Dems to put $100 billion tax burden on the poor…

September 29, 2021 11:00 am

House Dems Propose $100 Billion Tax Hike Targeting The Poor $3.5 trillion spending bill hits American tobacco users and those trying to quit The Democrats’ $3.5 trillion budget proposal relies on a $100 billion tax hike that disproportionately targets the …

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The U.S. Federal Debt Burden Has Never Been This High Before A Recession

March 6, 2019 9:35 am

by Jesse Colombo As the current economic cycle becomes increasingly long-in-the-tooth and macroeconomic and earnings data deteriorate, it is time to start thinking about the next recession. In particular, I wanted to point out that the U.S. federal debt burden has never …

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Will Student Loan Debt Be the Owed-Money Burden That Drives the Next Financial Crisis?

October 26, 2018 8:35 am

via wharton: That rising student debt is one of the creeping threats of our time is hard to refute. Student debt has more than tripled since 2004, reaching $1.52 trillion in the first quarter of 2018, according to the Federal Reserve …

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Mapping the Hidden Burden of Local and State Sales Taxes

May 15, 2018 2:18 pm

by howmuch Tax policy experts usually think about sales tax in one of two ways. On the one hand, it is aregressive tax because it takes a greater percentage of income from poor and middle-class people than the wealthy. But on …

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Mapping the Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on the United States

November 29, 2017 5:39 am

by howmuch There’s a lot of confusion and misunderstanding out there around the economic impact of illegal immigration in the United States. We decided to bring some clarity around the issue by mapping new numbers on the estimated costs of …

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How China could 'submerge' under the burden of its own debt

January 26, 2017 8:49 am

by Viraj Shah China is grappling with mounting debt. The countries credit to GDP ratio is at 28.8 percent. The U.S. economy was not able to ward off a financial crisis with credit to GDP ratio of 12.4 percent in …

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