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Governments can spend at a deficit, but there’s a limit to how much debt they can accumulate. Other countries have found that out. US was in a special position in the economy as the largest economy, a strong position in international trade and a lot of dollar investment or dollar based trading. We could get away it’s more, but at some point it still hits a limit and falls apart.
We’re already at a point where debt payments are one of the biggest pieces of the federal budget, blocking out better uses for that money. We keep stealing from the future and eventually we’ll get there to find everything gone.
And that’s before you have an incompetent leader destroying all that dollar influence, everything that made that special economic situation possible. We’re fucking around with that special economic position and will come out of this subject to the same deficit limits as any other country. Well find out our accumulated debt is beyond prudence for a “normal” economy and we’re no longer special enough to ignore that
We were in a counterintuitive position where spending more money for things like infrastructure and chips act was ok because of our special economic situation plus it’s an investment in the future that should have paid off. Whereas the orange fools approach to spending less money just risks our special economic situation that lets us get away with fucking around, plus points to a future of despair: it turns into losing more money in the future
Yup, that was the "can't do it too much" part. :)
Any of it would be relevant if I thought trump or the Republican party cared about those consequences.
The worse part of it is
That’s the potential economic catastrophe. So far we haven’t had to face many consequences of excessive debt accumulation, but if those idiots succeed in destroying the special circumstances that let us get away with more fiscal recklessness than other countries, that reckoning could happen very suddenly.
It’s a similar feel to climate tipping points. It’s unique enough situation that we really don’t have a good way to predict the likelihood, the timing, the severity, but we’re not just playing with fire, we’re running around holding a tank of burning napalm over our heads claiming: no big deal, no one’s been burnt yet