Originally posted by stanislav When goverments borrow money, it is just another word for raising taxes!
They make the value of the money lower (which is a sort of tax) and then spend that money which means that someone is earning that money.
IMHO it would be much better to increase the taxes to the sustainable level rather than hiding taxation through this "borrowing" acts.
the Fed doesn't have to tax anything to spend money.. urban legend.............
Look at the Iraq/Afganistan war "tax"..... opps no such thing..........