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canadianhere 17 points ago +17 / -0

So how does it work when the US national debt is about three times the value of all the gold in the world?

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BoricuaPede 14 points ago +14 / -0

Wow, what a creative idea. It's not like it has been tried again and again, from the late-stage Roman Empire to Weimar Germany to 2000's Venezuela. This is precisely the kind of thinking that destroys nations.