Chip Bok for February 03, 2023

Why does it matter so much now?

It’s never mattered before.

The GQP chalked up a huge debt and now they don’t want to pay for it.

Fixing a hole where the rain gets in (The Beatles)

‘Just revenge politics – that’s all we’ve been hearing about these past few weeks.

And as always, it’ll all come up to the wire and somebody will flinch – somebody that doesn’t care if he’s reelected (he was going to retire anyway, with a enormous pension and, free Obamacare!)

The imaginary ceiling will be raised, and everyone will fist bump and yell, “Voila!” as if they had laid the golden egg.

Put in line=item veto now.

There’s shouldn’t need to be a debt ceiling. You’ll note, if you do the websearch, that other nations see no need for it.

Orange Traitor’s lack of response killed millions. It’s a fact that a med student (from PH’s link to an opinion article) with a political agenda will never grasp.

Democrats do not have a plan to lower the national debt.

If ever there was a time to let the children vote on their future.

Face it Bok, there isn’t. The debt ceiling is merely a tool conservatives use to manipulate politics because your party lacks the strength and character to get anything done.

Why dont rebulican cut their pay

50x 10m is 500 in 10 years you can get 5t

Soon it will cost more to print the money than its worth.

Well, the debt ceiling has been a bad idea for decades anyway.

Tell me again how governing by highly-emotional, unfounded, vengeful, political, gut-feel decisions with no connection to reality are going to make America stronger, safer, more resilient, more unified and more prosperous.

Are there any plans to pay it off?

Of course there is no debt ceiling, the law establishing the debt ceiling was in conflict with the Fourteenth Amendment the day it was passed, and that has never changed.

Bunch of nonsense intended to provide political theater from day one. And that’s all it is.

Republicans added 20% to the debt with their tax breaks for rich people.

They defunded the IRS so there will be little tax collection.

It is meaningless. Constitutionally speaking, “The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned.” 14th Amendment.

i am so tired of it

Just print more money! Gosh, what could go wrong?

The ceiling was raised three times in Trump’s four years.

And it wasn’t like the deficit exploded during those four years or anything, only 25%.

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Something to be weaponized and LIEd about by Republicans. Like every other issue.

There really isn’t. It’s an artifice that performs no role. Like an appendix. Or a Republican in Congress.

Dems have always complied w/ GOP request to raise ceiling.

Perhaps, this has been a mistake…

Repeal the 2017 garbage tax cut from Trump / Repubs. Then audit these two and Bok.

Basically

True!

Sorry Chip. The deficit increased under every Republican president since Reagan and was reduced by every Democratic president from same.

Yeah! Biden and his 1.6 TRILLION $ tax cut for the super rich! He—Oh, wait. Sorry, forgot who did that.