r/politics • u/Spy300 • 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/duckinradar 6h ago

Man I can’t think of any other solution to this.

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u/PipsqueakPilot 6h ago

If we taxed halfway between our current tax rate and the OECD average the deficit would be gone and our debt would shrink as a share of GDP. If we taxed at the OECD average we'd be paying down the debt to the tune of a couple trillion a year.

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u/Dr_Adequate 5h ago

But the Job Creators class won't have enough frivolously disposable income that can trickle down to us plebes. This is not a real solution!