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- From: cmk@athena.mit.edu (Charles M Kozierok)
- Subject: Re: National debt is not bad
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.040635.11005@athena.mit.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 04:06:35 GMT
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- In article <C18xEA.FuG@unix.portal.com> mykes@shell.portal.com (mike myke schwartz) writes:
- >Charles M Kozierok (cmk@athena.mit.edu) wrote:
- >: In article <C16u87.MpI@unix.portal.com> mykes@shell.portal.com (mike myke schwartz) writes:
- >: >Issuing bonds and defecit spending are not the same thing.
- >: >
- >: >[then later]
- >: >
- >: >A balanced budget does not prevent the government from issuing bonds.
- >:
- >: are you really sure about this? how do you think the government
- >: raises the money it spends on misbalancing our budget now?
- >:
- >
- >Positively sure. Bonds SHOULD be issued for one-time purchases, not
- >for continuous misbalanced budget defecits.
- >
- >: they may not be exactly the same thing, but the government uses
- >: bonds almost exclusively to do the borrowing which causes the deficit.
- >:
- >
- >You got it backwards. The defecit causes borrowing. That's the problem.
- >Borrowing with specific agenda for the money is brilliant. Borrowing
- >because you can't manage your budget is stupid.
-
- agreed.
- this may be just a silly argument about semantics, but i was
- disputing the argument that "a balanced budget does not prevent the
- government from issuing bonds". many bonds are issued to fund the
- deficit. so eliminating the deficit will stop the issuance of those
- bonds which were used to finance it.
-
- --
- charles
-