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Comment by toomuchtodo

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-debt-25-percent/ (25% of national debt was incurred during the last administration; half was COVID relief measures, the other half was tax cuts for the wealthy)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fiscal-deficit-idUSKB... (Republican tax cuts to fuel historic U.S. deficits: CBO)

Sources at bottom of the first link.

This doesn’t include healthcare cost inflation due to a grossly inefficient healthcare model.

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-spe...

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2...

parent toomuchtodo 3 years ago

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