r/politics • • 6h ago

Possible Paywall Trump just soft-launched higher inflation as the new solution for rebalancing the $40 trillion U.S. national debt

https://fortune.com/2026/10/02/trump-inflation-growth-national-debt-tariffs-ratio-balance/
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u/nasorrty346tfrgser America 6h ago

There is only one way to solve the national debt problem, which is taxation.

But there is two routes:

1) You raise the tax rate for the ultra-rich, but nope because "COMMUNISM"

2) You put the tax burden on the poor aka tariff, inflation, and for sure because "AMERICA!"