This is going to be so great for the Rich People’s Pedo Island Money.
So when do you start doing actual work, Oz?
Garbage people produce garbage ideas.
Why not pay off the debt by reducing military spending by 90% for the next thirty years. We would still be in the top three countries for military spending.
This shitty idea is a thousand times better than anything Oz could come up with.
If we WANT to Fix the Debt we need to
Tax like 5 REALLY Rich People!Get RID of Retirement!The thing is that he’s right, but will these sleazy fucks do anything to actually make it happen? Well let’s see what they’re to implement…
- A universal healthcare system so Americans are healthier and less stressed? Nope
- Free college so Americans can start their careers as efficiently as possible? Nope
- Free universal daycare for all American parents so they could focus on their careers without being to stressed about where to take their kids? Nope
- Raising the minimum wage to something livable so people don’t depend on government programs? Nope
- Investing in public transport so people can more reliably commute to work and find new jobs? Nope
- Strengthening worker rights to ensure that workers are taken care of, thus ensuring their longevity and productivity? Nope
- Passing union friendly policies while prosecuting union busting businesses to make sure American workers feel their hard work isn’t being taken advantage of? Nope
- Regulating hazardous workplace conditions to ensure the safety of workers? Nope
So what they fuck do they mean by this? They clearly don’t care about the debt or the well being of Americans since they’re not willing to do anything about either. No, what they want are results without any of the work needed to achieve it. They’re not looking for a more productive economy, they’re looking for slaves.
The thing is that he’s right
He’s not right. The national debt is way fuckin bigger than 3 trillion. He’s also wrong in presuming that an infusion of productivity (tax revenue) can “solve” intentional over-spending. He’s just a serial scammer spouting uninformed nonsense to stay relevant.
You’re completely right. It won’t solve the debt problem, that can only be solved with a redone trade policy. I’m just saying that in the abstract, its a good direction to go in IF we implement the stuff that I listed in my comment. People will work better if the system works for them. It currently doesn’t, and people are just trying to survive.
last time i bothered doing the napkin math, it really wouldn’t take much to reduce the national debt to more sustainable pre-9/11 levels. just tax rich cunts (anyone who is a milllionaire) at 60-70’s level of taxation for 4 years and it would be paid down to that level within 1 election cycle
Increased productivity means jack shit when the results of said productivity are being sucked up by people at the top.
Or if we tax billionaires and corporations…
Don’t forget those pesky religious tax exemptions too, while you’re at it.
Or we could make it illegal to be a billionaire.
Two of the three points he made are total horseshit, but let’s not throw out that last one:
If we could get the average American to
start working a year earlier, right out of high school, or a year later --not retire – orwork better during their lifetime because they’re healthy, it would generate about $3 trillion to the US economy.Universal Health Care fucking now.
Their healthcare plan is this:
Got injured on the job? Can’t work anymore? Well, that’s okay. We have a nurse’s station behind the woodshed out back. Just stand there and face the wall, and soon your injury won’t be a problem.
“Too old to perform? Well, just come back here behind this woodshed and face the wall, and we can discuss our retirement plan.” The HR rep says as they pull a revolver.
If we just start culling the weak then there will be more resources for us to own.
-The rich and their political cronies
Or we could stop lying about what the national debt is and tax the wealthy to destroy their absurd power.
https://mmt101.substack.com/p/mmt-basics-national-debt-defined
I hope Dr Oz is killed in front of his family
. . . painfully and slowly.
Adding $3 trillion in GDP would not remove the debt anyway. Assholes like this one don’t even understand how GDP is calculated nor what it means.
It’s beautifully wrong on so many levels.
- Increasing GDP doesn’t address the debt crisis.
- The debt is WAY bigger than 3 trillion
- As long as Trump is in office, the debt will grow, and nothing can be done to change that.
Mfs legit think GDP stands for Gross Domestic Profit.
You’re not a team player, are you? Work more and work harder. For the team. /s
“We’re all in this together.”
“You’re an essential worker.”
“We’re a family.”
Telltale signs of a malignant sociopath.
If we emptied the account of every rich asshole like this we would achieve the same thing AND lose a whole class of dickbags that think they should be in charge.
The top 25 US billionaires could pay off US debt. Not even every billionaire. They total about 3 trillion net worth.
That’s ignoring say the $60 billion or so Apple has in cash and who knows what other companies have
“As of January 2026, the total U.S. national debt has exceeded $38.5 trillion. This figure represents the total money borrowed by the federal government to cover annual deficits, which is growing rapidly, with a rise of over $2 trillion in 2025 alone.”
I definitely want to tax the hell out of the rich, but we are in a deep hole. A long term systemic change will serve us better (or in addition to) talking all of their money now.
This debt is not important dude. You can pay any debt that is taken with your own money. You just cant pay if your debt is in other types, like gold silver or other currencies.
They created this system intentionally, so that they wont tax the rich and they make us poorer by printing money, and they have an excuse for stupid things.
The only problem with paying this debt, is people starts to distrust us dollar around the world, which is what they should do. I checked, and 100% of the debt is in USD. So, the govn can pay it right away.So, the govn can pay it right away.
No offense but i think you should learn a bit about more about economics, specifically about how currency works. Long story short, if a currency loses a lot of value in comparison to other currencies, the ‘local’ system collapses. So the very important task of a government (or its central bank really) is to keep it’s relative value high (not too high, but that’s a story for another day. The us gov (or the Federal Reserve in this case) would fail very very hard if they would decide to create 38 trillion usd. It is especially problematic considering the financial problems that it would cause are on top of all the other shit that’s going on.
Yes I agree. It wouldnt be problem-free. What I mean is, you can pay the debt, if your debt was in another currency, you might be in a position that you just cant pay the debt.
Firstly the debt is for a long time. The debt until the next year is 10 trillion. You can pay this debt with wealth taxes if you dont want to print more money. Secondly, USA has to produce. It stopped producing good tech, China nowadays owns every tech production. If it earns money, it can pay this debt.
Thirdly, most of the debt is domestic and to the rich. You can just stop paying this. You are the government dude, you are taxing people’s labor, you are taxing every transaction, most countries have stamp tax that doesnt even exist, you can oc tax this money too, and sometimes governments do this.
We have to tax the rich, even if we paid all the debt, we still have to tax the rich. This is required for justice, this is required for people to love their country, this is required to stop poverty, homelessness. When we have a just society people are going to help their country willingly. But currently, some people are killing others, raping bribing, doing anything and we can do nothing about it, while being hungry.
Having that debt played a big part in the US gaining the soft power that it used to have. Long term I’m not sure we’d even want to eliminate that debt but maybe target to keep it near the inflation rate.
Basically “if you owe the bank a dollar you have a problem. If you owe the bank a billion dollars the bank has a problem” but extended out to international scale. If your roi depended on the US being sound and successful you’ll take steps to ensure that outcome.
Oh I’m way off on the amount. I think I had that 2 Trillion increase in my head as the full debt.
I fully support long term change though yeah. I feel like the entire country, not just politicians but business men and regular day to day folk, don’t think more than the next quarter.
The corporations can’t see past their next set of financial statements for action that is true. Not legally even by their charters. They could be sued by their shareholders for not maximizing shareholder value.
The debt itself means nothing. The only thing that matters are the interest. So sure, a debt increasing much faster than the economy is an issue. But there is no point in throwing around big numbers. The US GDP was $31.8 trillions in 2025.
The debt will grow. It is intended to grow, that’s by design. You should have a small deficit every year. That’s why the rest of the economy should follow, so that the interest are not becoming overwhelming. The current issue is the US budget (but that’s not the only one, see France for example) is heavily imbalanced because of very large tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy and corporates. With that, you have the description of the issue as well as the obvious solution.
It’s not even “the debt”
It’s their fucking debt. It’s the literal bill they keep skipping out on.
Nitpick- that is the deficit, not the debt. Like elsewhere said, debt is near 40 trillion.
Otherwise I still agree with the suggestion.
Yeah I didn’t make that debt. You pay it.
No fucking shit.
whats this from?
It’s an Irish sitcom called “Father Ted”
