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To: Kirk © who wrote (10755)	1/21/2026 2:01:36 PM
From: rdkflorida2	Respond to of 10768

Years ago I posted on your board the same thought. "No tax cuts until spending cuts are in effect". I am usually ten years ahead of people because I am always thinking forward instead of just being in the "now".

To: Kirk © who wrote (10755)	1/21/2026 2:30:35 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Respond to of 10768

Re: Bonds are worth exactly what they are selling for. We completely agree on this. In fact this is core of my argument to you. US bonds are priced much lower than other developed countries. Ergo, they are not as "valuable" as many people think; the US has had to lower the price of its bonds to entice buyers. Re: Everyone with a lower 10-yr yield on that list benefits from US generosity (or stupidity) Here we completely disagree. The US is neither generous nor stupid. The US, like everyone else, behaves in self-interest maximizing manner. I know that the American public often thinks that the rest of the world owes them and that the US is some kindhearted benevolent giant. But if that assessment is illogical. To believe it is to believe that the same people who are stingy and harsh in providing the smallest benefit to the American public somehow have a complete personality change when it comes to dealing with the rest of the world. How logical is that? In reality, the US government, just like every other government, is the means to enforce the will of the ruling class and benefit them. The truth of the matter is that the US government does everything it can to help the rich get richer. And the richer you are, the more help you will get. But this bias is not justifiable in a democracy or even a pseudo-democracy. So a narrative has to be constructed and the public opinion be shaped around it. An that fiction is the myth of the US as a benevolent giant. Case in point, the government has been claiming it has no budget and has to cut services to the poor. This is not a new claim. It goes back many decades to as far as I remember. Then why is it that the government forgave trillions of dollars that the multinationals had stashed outside of the US? Yes, I am fully aware that the argument was that this money is out and if we don't give a tax break it will stay out. But why didn't they go after the US taxes as forcefully as they went after media pirates? Another example, it took forever to hammer out an international deal to impose a minimum tax of 15% on corporations. The idea idea was to close the loophole allowing companies to separate their profit and cost centers to different countries and place their profits in tax shelters. But somehow at the last minute the Trump administration negotiated an exemption for US companies. I can keep going. But you get the picture. There is no logical reason to believe that the US politicians are some benevolent humanitarians enamored with serving non-Americans more than their own voters. Prove me wrong.