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    What you’ve described definitely doesn’t sound regular. Interest rates don’t exist, printing more and mormoney to pay for stuff doesn’t cause inflation etcc.

    Spending before income, sure. But this plant isn’t actually making an income since it has to fight against Chinese, American manufacturing and they can out-subsidise their manufacturing so much so that your domestic manufacturing isn’t competitive anymore. That’s the whole issue.

    Now as it stands, the government takes a loan they have to pay interest on to subsidise manufacturing and they’re hoping to get the money back (unless they want to keep taking loans) through taxes. You’ll just lose out money without any tangible benefit. You could use that money to pay for roads at least!

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        5 hours ago

        You are suggesting the country can set the interest rate and will get loans against that rate. Even when the loans pile up and the outlook on paying that loan off in agreed on time gets worse.

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            The idea that a country can set their own interest rate one-sidedly with global creditors and receive endless credit against that rate is just a fantasy.