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In July, the US government collected roughly 1/3 of a trillion dollars in taxes.
That same month, it spent roughly 3/4 of a trillion dollars, leaving a $432 billion deficit in July alone.
Annualized, that’s a deficit of more than $5.1 trillion.
The math ain’t mathin’.
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