The US credit rating has been downgraded. But there's an easy fix for our debt | Robert Reich

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : I'm old enough to remember when the US's super-rich financed the government with their tax payments.
38% : So when the debt of the United States is downgraded because Trump Republicans are planning another big tax cut mainly benefiting the rich and big corporations, most Americans could end up paying in three different ways: The "bond vigilantes" are not the cause of this absurdity.
36% : Some rightwing Republicans in Congress are using the Moody's downgrade to justify deeper spending cuts in Medicaid, food stamps and other social programs that lower-income Americans depend on.
24% : But since the Reagan, George W Bush and Trump 1 tax cuts, tax rates on the super-rich have plummeted.

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