Congressional Cost Benefit Analysis

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The United States hit a boom in the late 1990s and that was a four year stretch. How big the debt is is slightly larger than the size of the U.S. economy, we need to fix that soon. The Congressional Budget Office expects to override $30 trillion by 2028. Janet Yellen warned them about the countries in debt. This is a problem because the government has to pay dues just like the rest of us, they have to pay interest on its debt. We all have to pay our dues and they have not been paying theirs. Nobody is getting worried because the government can print its own money and that is why also they are in debt. It is scary because the intragovernmental debt that Washington is borrowing against government trust funds. That is how they are getting the

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