- giraudjeanbaptiste0
- 30 juin
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Dans un violent éditorial, le New York Times du 27 Juin 2025 (1) explique comment la politique budgétaire de l’Administration Trump (le « Big beautiful Bill ») va provoquer une hausse sans précédent de la dette fédérale et des taux d’intérêt ainsi qu’un nouvel enrichissement de la classe la plus fortunée.
En voici quelques extraits significatifs :
« The rise of the federal debt over the past two decades has prompted countless warnings that the United States is approaching a fiscal reckoning, a day when the government won’t be able to drink all it wants from the fountain of easy money.
We, the people, are spending a staggering amount of money each year to borrow money. The interest payments on the federal debt now exceed the government’s spending on the military.
The government is on pace to pay more than $1 trillion to its lenders this year. The House version of Mr. Trump’s bill, already approved by that chamber, would increase interest payments on the debt by an average of $55 billion a year over the next decade
The C.B.O. predicted that the expansion of federal borrowing would drive up interest rates, doubling the increase in borrowing costs to more than $100 billion a year.
Americans are being asked to bear this burden for a bill that would deliver tax cuts primarily to the wealthiest Americans while slashing health care and other government services for lower-income families.
Republicans are proposing to take hundreds of billions from the poor to give it to the rich.
the tax cuts are so large that they will add to the debt and force future generations to pay the bills.
An expansion of federal borrowing is very likely to increase the upward pressure on interest rates
The expected increase in the debt is particularly absurd because the government would borrow much of the money from the same people who got the biggest tax cuts from the bill
Instead of taxing the rich, the government pays them interest. »
Jean-Guy Giraud
28 - 06 - 2025
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L’article se base sur l’analyse faite par le Congressional Budgetary Office (CBO)