2024-10-28 12:17:00
NEWS – The two candidates for the White House have increased their promises of tax breaks for businesses and the middle class, ignoring the worsening of the deficit.
Fear on this side of the Atlantic, indifference on the other. While the French public debt has jumped by 1,000 billion euros in seven years, putting the political class on fire, the United States debt increases every six months by this amount (1,194 billion dollars in the last six months). But the two candidates for the White House don’t care much about this.
Neither Kamala Harris nor Donald Trump say a word about it in their meetings. The issue was not even raised on September 10, during their only televised face-to-face meeting. THE Wall Street Journal deplores this silence and raises the alarm: “An American national debt crisis is coming. Republicans and Democrats are similar in one important respect: They both act as if budget deficits don’t matter. according to the bible of American business circles.
The drift is undeniable, but neither Donald Trump nor Kamala Harris intend to change it
It’s the elephant in the room (“elephant in the room”, the Anglo-Saxons say to designate a topic known to all but which no one…
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