$50T projected US budget deficit
Scaramucci warned that the US is on a trajectory toward a $50 trillion budget deficit, which can only be resolved through inflation.
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The $50 Trillion Time Bomb and the Inflation Tax
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The fiscal argument reaches its terminus: Scaramucci projects the US heading toward a $50 trillion cumulative budget deficit, and argues that no future presidential candidate will tell Americans the truth about what it will take to correct it. The likely outcome is inflation — what he memorably calls 'the pernicious regressive form of taxation' — which effectively steals purchasing power from ordinary citizens without requiring a vote. [1] — Anthony Scaramucci "The US is on course for a $50 trillion budget deficit with no political will for the fix. The likely outcome: inflation as a stealth tax. S…" 43:20 A $1,000 bank balance becomes worth $800 in real terms, and the people hurt most are those at the bottom of the income distribution, not the wealthy. Kay adds the political impossibility: real fixes require bipartisan cooperation, which demands restraint and short-term pain that neither party is willing to absorb while the other runs attack ads. The July 4th anniversary, she says wryly, would have been a nice moment for that gift of honesty to America.
The $50 Trillion Time Bomb America Is Sitting On
The US is on course for a $50 trillion budget deficit with no political will for the fix. The likely outcome: inflation as a stealth tax. Scaramucci says politicians would rather quietly drain your bank account than tell you the truth about what it will take to correct course.
Mamdani's July 4th Speech: Dueling Visions for 2028
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani delivered a sober July 4th speech from Washington's desk — the same desk where the Declaration of Independence was first read to the Continental Army. Scaramucci says it's channelling Frederick Douglass's flawed-but-redeemable patriotism, and it's going to resonate in the have-not spaces of America.
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