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05-24-2025, 02:24 PM
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Re: Implanting Bill Gates's Micro-chips In Brains For Over 20 Years!
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Why would anyone buy our bonds if we don't tax?
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Good point. If we can just print money endlessly, as MMT suggests, why even issue bonds? Just create an agency with a bottomless bank account to transfer funds to all creditors. We could cancel all of the national debt in a few keystrokes.
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05-24-2025, 02:27 PM
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Re: Implanting Bill Gates's Micro-chips In Brains For Over 20 Years!
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Originally Posted by Adder
He's done it a bunch of times, saying it is a old fashioned word but a good one. It is bizarre.
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He discussed "trophy wives" for a few minutes at his West Point commencement speech today.
And I still can't get past his pronunciation of China. He uses the sustained, almost sarcastic "I!" for what reason exactly?
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05-24-2025, 02:30 PM
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Re: "anti-Semitism" past and present
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Josh Marshall:
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Nothing creates faster friends than shared commercial interests.
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05-24-2025, 07:07 PM
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Join Date: May 2004
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Re: Implanting Bill Gates's Micro-chips In Brains For Over 20 Years!
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Good point. If we can just print money endlessly, as MMT suggests, why even issue bonds? Just create an agency with a bottomless bank account to transfer funds to all creditors. We could cancel all of the national debt in a few keystrokes.
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That is neither my point nor what MMT suggests, but I am mostly sure you know that.
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05-24-2025, 07:47 PM
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Moderasaurus Rex
Join Date: May 2004
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Re: Implanting Bill Gates's Micro-chips In Brains For Over 20 Years!
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Good point. If we can just print money endlessly, as MMT suggests, why even issue bonds? Just create an agency with a bottomless bank account to transfer funds to all creditors. We could cancel all of the national debt in a few keystrokes.
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That is neither my point nor what MMT suggests, but I am mostly sure you know that.
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