Government borrowing prevents all private sector investment

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When the state needs massive amounts of capital, it aggressively sucks up all available investment funds. Private businesses are left completely starved for loans, violently hindering their ability to actually expand.

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Japan possesses the highest national public debt in the developed world, routinely hovering around two hundred and sixty percent of their entire gross domestic product.

Global debt has ballooned to over 300 trillion dollars, a figure that massively outweighs the total amount of actual, physical money and easily accessible liquid assets that currently exist on planet Earth.

Issuing government bonds is borrowing from grandchildren

A country can refuse to repay its debt

North Korea literally ordered one thousand luxury Volvo sedans from Sweden in the 1970s and then just completely ghosted them on the invoice after the cars were successfully delivered.

Credit card companies actively refer to customers who pay off their balances in full every month as 'deadbeats' because they don't generate any revenue from exorbitant interest rates.

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