When will the US not bring enough revenue to cover National Debt Interest?

[888theGreat]

Well right now we bring in $5 Trillion in Taxes , Bonds, Treasuries , and sales of Arms and everything else. In 2036 it is estimated the Interest on the Debt will be $5 Trillion. So that means 2037 we will not be able to pay the interest on the Debt , which means we will have to print money to pay some of the Interest on the Debt at current tax rates..

Countries are selling US treasuries in record number and are weening themselves away from the US. US population is aging needing more money in Health costs. The work force is shrinking due to people having less children. There will be more jobs lost than gained moving forward because of AI related Technology.

So how will US try to pay off Interest on the debt without printing money?

You can reduce size of Gov't.

Sell Gov't land

Raise taxes on working Americans to 90%

Raise taxes on Corporations to 75%

We will have to reduce spending for sure and or raise revenue somehow.

If we don't it looks like 2037 could be death of the American esperiment.

Trump is going to give Military another $500 Billion. Spending has increased , all the DOGE "Savings" has been spent. We are going farther and farther into debt. Not to mention all the natural disasters that are coming our way.

Raise taxes on the Americans that do work to 90%

Have a reset

Reduce size of Gov't by 50% ,

Raise taxes on Corporations to 75%

Sell all Gov't land

All of the above

Hope we have no World Wars , or Natural Disasters for the nest 10 years.

[BonzoInBitburg]

Japan and China are the US's largest holders of debt and they've been selling debt for the past year which puts upwards pressure on 10 year bonds which is why no matter how much the Fed lowers interest rates, mortgages and car loans aren't going to go down because rates those are tied to 10 year bonds yields. US debt is backed by "full faith and credit" of the US government and the threat of the US walking away from that debt will finish off the US economy with a collapsed dollar and sky high interest rates. If spending continues to grow out of control like it did in 2025, countries will continue to sell US debt. Especially countries who don't like Trump. The US can't win when it comes to economic warfare because their foreign owned debt has backed them into a corner.

[888theGreat]

This why inflation is going back up

[BonzoInBitburg]

Inflation is also caused by a US dollar that has gone down 8% in the past 12 months which is problematic for a country that relies so heavily on cheap foreign imports.

[madhatters4]

i just don't understand why we don't reduce the military/defense budgets. they are bloated, and unnecessary... well actually i know why we don't reduce those budgets (military industrial complex), but reducing those budgets would be one way to quickly begin addressing our seemingly unending debt

[888theGreat]

We could rely on our Nukes as the deterent. Also , it is almost impossible to invade the US. During WW2 , even if Germany would have beaten Russia and Ebgland , it would have taken years to build up enough ships and men to have taken the US.

[madhatters4]

the primary reason we don't reduce military/defense budgets is simply due to the industries in america that make BILLIONS on gov't contracts (Northrup, Lockheed, Boeing, etc). one reduction in the budget would cost thousands of jobs and then of course those companies contribute millions and millions to campaigns to help assure the budgets aren't cut and thus they can count on those contracts to prop up their business.

still the budgets should be cut but out military industrial complex has tied so much into excessively and unnecessarily bloated defense budgets

[XXblack88]

I don't know could be anything at this point

[lightbulb27]

yea, that is the real problem. they are blowing it as usual.

were screwed... our kids are screwed.

but each country has gotten out of the funk before. always been via war. that's the bad part. it's sad to think many will suffer in horrific deaths, because we were inept, greedy, and sloppy with finances.

But that seems real possibility. Lets hope and make effort not to.

[Sevenpointfive]

i was watching some crazy asshole today that was saying if we could enter the workforce a year earlier or stay out of retirement for one more year, then that could be 3 trillion dollars for our debt! who the fuck do these people think they are? and this is making sure you are in the workforce for a total of 50 years!

[Static_In_The_Attic]

Taking care of National Debt is a quick fix & I can’t believe we didn’t take care of it a long time ago & with one simple trick we can take care of it tomorrow.

If a regular person writes a check & doesn’t have enough to cover it the check bounces.

If the government writes a check no problem so I think the government should write itself a check for the full debt amount. Problem solved.

[888theGreat]

They could wipe it out in 23 hours by Seizong everyones homes. They would pay it off and have a surplus.

[msc545]

Stop spending literally $1 trillion or more per year on the bloated military budget. That should help.

[888theGreat]

He wants an gold dome. How much is that SOB going to cost.

[msc545]

It will cost a ton of money, but it doesn't really matter. Apparently, he gets to spend it without any reservations or controls at all.

[Mike_Hum]

We have a spending problem, not a taxation problem. I thought DOGE brought that up to you. I thought the exposure of trillions being stolen and scammed brought that up to you?

[888theGreat]

DOGE money is gone , already spent on ICE increases , and Military.

[888theGreat]

Workforce will shrink , and you can't tax people that don;t have a job. Size of Gov't will increase , meaning more revenue will be needed. We also have less Foreign Wrokers that bought stuff and paid sales taxes.

[Mike_Hum]

Well yeah, we're having to spend money to clean up Biden's bullshit.

[exitseven]

260.000 government employees have been furloughed. The plan is to eventually pay off the debt.

[OneViewpoint]

You left out the most obvious lever we have. Reduce defense spending from $1 Trillion to something like $150 billion.

[888theGreat]

How about just enough to pay our Troops? For a couple years.

[Hagar88]

If we keep allowing china to expoit trade never.

[888theGreat]

China beats on our trade because they make better deals then US

[Hagar88]

China beats our deals because they trade unfairly with us while weve been giving them most favoured nation status for years. The European Union has come to the same conclusion as the US over china as the Chinese deliberately keep a lot of EU goods out.

[exitseven]

lower interest rates, cut waste in government and grow the economy.

Does any of this sound familiar/?

[goaded]

2007?

[888theGreat]

Not what Trump is doing. He is tripling ICE and Making Military Bigger. He created Space Force last time.

[exitseven]

it is exactly what Trump is doing. He is doing the othr stuff you mentioned to. he can multi task.

[888theGreat]

you should do stand up

[exitseven]

What's not true

[David318578]

There is a lot of debt held by foreign entities. The US could just tell them to get fucked and clear that out.

[888theGreat]

and these countries could say here is a bonus , a Nuke

[BonzoInBitburg]

Telling foreign entities to get fucked will not clear that out. It will collapse the dollar and lead to hyperinflation.

[David318578]

@888thegreat lol and then we shoot down the nuke on route and retaliate turning that country into a sheet of glass. Either way debt is no longer an issue. Not that anyone would be absurd enough to attempt to nuke the US

[888theGreat]

US can't shoot down nukes

[David318578]

@888thegreat lol sure the biggest threat to the US would be a nuclear attack on us. And you dont think they have a way to shoot them down? Lol
They had the ability to shoot down incoming missiles in the gulf war

[BonzoInBitburg]

The US has less than 50 ground based interceptors to stop a nuclear missile with a success rate of just over 50%. FYI, there were no nuclear missiles in the Gulf War.

[David318578]

@BonzoInBitburg yeah because im sure the DOD is going to make sure BonsolnBitbirg from GaG is fully caught up with top secret defense capabilities lol

Here is there budget

www.usaspending.gov/.../department-of-defense

[BonzoInBitburg]

The US overexaggerates its capabilities for obvious reasons. If they admit to less than 50 GDI's than its probably closer to 5 and the accuracy is closer to 15%. The US never underexaggerates its abilities, because that would show weakness and provoke an attack on US soil.

[David318578]

@BonzoInBitburg well your free to guess, but with a 1.4 trillion budget, your guess would be a bad one.

[Anonymous]

Reset, probably effectively selling the US to China

[Pohjolan]

Do you have a source for that?

[Likes2drive]

Go bankrupt I guess