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'Tory Government is no Robin Hood - they steal from the poor and give to Rishi'

You’ve got to laugh when the Tories falsely claimed Britain was bankrupt under Labour, despite national debt being more of a steep hill than today’s mighty mountain

Daily Mirror

Trump, Bush tax cuts drive national debt

“The United States does not have a high-spending problem; it has a low-tax problem,” the report concludes

Salon

Editorial: The budget and the debt: Speaker Kevin McCarthy must agree to raise the borrowing ceiling

President Joe Biden’s proposed budget for the federal fiscal year that starts on Oct. 1 would spend $6.8 trillion off revenues of only $5 trillion in taxes collected. The imbalance, a $1.8 trillion deficit, would get added to the national debt of $31.4 trillion that has been building since 1789.…

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Republicans are threatening to default on the US national debt. Don’t believe them

Here’s a dirty secret: both Republicans’ debt hysteria and Biden’s proposed tax hikes are pure theater. Neither will happen

The Guardian - US

What is the US national debt and how has it grown over time?

The national debt grew by more than $4 trillion in 2020 alone.

USAFacts

GOP bill: Make Trump tax cuts permanent

One economist noted that the measure is backed by the "same members who are pushing us to a debt limit crisis"

Salon

US could default on debt in July unless Congress raises ceiling, CBO warns – as it happened

Budget analysts give July to September default prediction

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White House: GOP plans would drive deficits up $3 trillion

President Joe Biden plans to go on the offensive against Republicans by saying their policies would add $3 trillion to the national debt

The Independent UK

Every person in Ireland owes €44,000 each as part of the national debt

This makes Irish people some of the most indebted in the world

Irish Mirror

Irish national debt stands at 44,000 euro per person, figures show

The Department of Finance said that it is one of the highest per capita debt burdens in the world.

The Independent UK

US is spending record amounts servicing its national debt – interest rate hikes add billions to the cost

Consumers and businesses aren’t the only ones feeling the pain of higher borrowing costs because of Federal Reserve rate hikes. Uncle Sam is too.

The Conversation

John M. Crisp: Don’t feel guilty about taxing the wealthy

As our nation bumps up hard against a national debt north of $31 trillion, let’s start with the obvious: Our expenditures are greater than our revenue. And while this isn’t the crisis that Republicans imagine when a Democrat is in the White House, common sense suggests that bringing expenditures and…

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Lots of sound and fury on US debt, but not a crisis — yet

For all the sound and fury about raising the nation's debt limit, most economists say federal borrowing is not at a crisis point

The Independent UK

Editorial: If Kevin McCarthy is serious about protecting the economy, he’d raise the debt ceiling

After he was elected speaker on the 15th ballot, Kevin McCarthy promised that the U.S. House under Republican leadership would protect the national economy, saying that the party was committed to “stop wasteful Washington spending, to lower the price of groceries, gas, cars, housing, and stop the rising national debt.”

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Commentary: House Republicans’ first order of business? Balloon the $31 trillion national debt

Republicans have long claimed they are dedicated deficit hawks, blaming Democrats for growing deficits and debt. But two votes they cast after electing Kevin McCarthy as House speaker prove that Republicans are charlatans when it comes to deficit reduction.

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Editorial: IRS gets financial windfall, but keeps same old stripes

Congressional Democrats last year showered the IRS with $80 billion in new funding in an effort to close an estimated $600 billion “tax gap,” the difference between income taxes actually owed and those actually collected. This was supposed to help pay for the Biden administration’s ongoing spendapalooza that has run…

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Editorial: The fiscal cliff looms; nothing to see here

The national debt is much like the weather. Everybody worries about the topic, but nobody wants to do anything about it.

Birmingham Post

More than 50 North East jobs created as cost-of-living leads to new national debt advice service

Money and Pensions Service (MaPS is pumping £228m into debt advice services in England over the next three years

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A standoff is coming in 2023 — and it’s over the national debt

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is headed toward a standoff over the national debt next year, when Republicans newly in control of the U.S. House threaten to demand concessions for raising the government’s legal borrowing limit.

The Conversation

Government debt won't necessarily burden future generations – but austerity will

In his autumn budget statement, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said that the Conservatives don’t leave debts for the next generation. As such, he vowed to halve government borrowing over the next five years.

ABC News

Credit card debt top issue for Australians calling the National Debt Helpline

Brooke Haebich is worried about her credit card debt. She is one of the many Australians who have contacted the National Debt Helpline this year.

The Guardian - UK

Don’t be taken in by that £50bn ‘fiscal black hole’. It’s just a dodgy Tory metaphor

Drastic public sector belt-tightening is not an economic necessity but a political decision

Fortune

Nouriel Roubini says it's 'mission impossible' for the U.S. to avoid a recession

History tells us a recession is all but guaranteed next year, and Dr. Doom warns it could combine the worst of two big economic crises in past decades.

ABC News

The government is sitting on (nearly) a trillion dollars of debt. How big a problem is it?

In late June, Australia's national debt was $895 billion, but many economists argue the total, or gross debt figure is not the best debt figure to look at, Tom Lowrey writes.

The Guardian - UK

Pound falls and UK borrowing costs rise despite Jeremy Hunt debt promise

Chancellor says he will do ‘whatever is necessary’ to bring down national debt

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