• Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Fair point. Let’s take a slightly deeper look. The annual interest on the US national debt is approaching $1 TRILLION. Any number starting with “M” amounts less than a tenth of one percent of that. So it won’t “pay down” anything, it will just add a tiny drop in the bucket to one year’s interest. I haven’t done any math to estimate the problems resulting from putting a shitload more guns into circulation, but my guess it they would cost more than the benefits. But that’s like, just my opinion, man.

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      So it won’t “pay down” anything, it will just add a tiny drop in the bucket to one year’s interest.

      Agreed. But just like paying off personal debt, “any” is more than “none,” so I have no problems with it.

      I do have problems with both parties wasting money and getting us into debt in the first place, though.

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        7 days ago

        Like I said tho - cost/benefit analysis. Introducing what I assume is a huge number of confiscated guns into the population will create costs downstream, not just moar freedom.