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Ritz for Forbes: “The Trillion-Dollar Question Missing From The Presidential Debate”

  • December 20, 2019
  • Ben Ritz
Congress voted this week for a $1.9 trillion tax and spending deal, over a quarter of which was added to our $23 trillion national debt. Thanks to this and other fiscally irresponsible legislation signed into law by President Donald Trump, the federal government will run an annual budget deficit of over $1 trillion this year and every year that comes after it. Yet of over 500 questions asked throughout six presidential debates, not a single one has raised the issue.

 

Read the full piece on Forbes.

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