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5% of federal budget goes to debt payment or servicing


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2022 Jun 27, 11:51pm   957 views  6 comments

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Debt service or payment as a percentage of the federal budget is around 5% in 2022, and is forecasted to increase to 11.1% over the next 9 years.

https://www.thebalance.com/interest-on-the-national-debt-4119024

GAO is urging caution as far as rising interest rates impact on future debt in its May 2022 report.

https://www.gao.gov/blog/larger-federal-deficits-higher-interests-rates-point-need-urgent-action

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1   PeopleUnited   2022 Jun 28, 6:53am  

The great reset will take care of all of that.
“We are at a turning point of humankind - we should not underestimate the historical significance of the situation we are in," Klaus Judas Schwaub
2   clambo   2022 Jun 28, 7:35am  

The worst thing about this is the people who own the debt are often not Americans but rather foreigners.

So, you’re going to work and pay interest to guys in China, UK, Japan, Norway, Saudi Arabia, etc.

Taxing you lowers your standard of living; sending our money overseas lowers the USA standard of living.
3   clambo   2022 Jun 28, 9:03am  

So foreigners own 37% of $20.83 trillion according to the above.

That’s a lot of interest to pay overseas.
4   clambo   2022 Jun 28, 9:05am  

Also, the Federal Reserve is going to sell its bonds
(debt) , and foreigners will buy some of it.
5   AD   2022 Jun 28, 10:09am  

HunterTits says

Since 2020, the Fed has monetized most debt issued by the US government, too.


China's max holdings of US debt was in 2014 and they gradually reduced it since then.

The Fed has monetized debt since 2008, the Great Recession, with at least $4 trillion in QE back then.

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6   AD   2022 Jul 4, 11:20pm  

HunterTits says


This will change the equation on what is 'too much debt' for the US.


Its the member banks of the Federal Reserve who own the debt as well as 401k and IRA investors. I do as most of my IRA is in a balanced fund 60% bonds and 40% stocks.

So it is to suffer inflation or have the government default. I expect the Fed and government wants to inflate out of this crisis instead of just defaulting and telling those bond holders that they will only get paid 75 cents on a dollar.

Inflating out of a crisis is more of a subtle way of paying 75 cents on a dollar.

There is a lesser chance of public outrage (and bloodshed or violence) as it gets drawn out over a few years with inflation outstripping income (i.e., wages, investments, social security and pensions) growth by a few percentage points. In a way it is a tax to help sustain the monetary and fiscal systems.

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