@NoMoreBikeLanes Bike lanes in a world with distances bloated by universal car use can often feel sadly pointless. Most of your route is still unprotected, the places themselves are often dominated by parking, and you can easily still get crushed by a car.
@constans The incidence of income tax and other taxes on the food I need to eat or die means there is actually no opting out. You WILL forgo some surplus.
@SubvertingSS@JohnMer12725120@MarcGoldwein@Noahpinion@mattyglesias@econJaredB I think high debt to GDP possibly signals the other direction. Markets wouldn't put real resources into a failing nation, making inflation higher (and thus NGDP growth) preventing the debt to gdp ratio from being higher. Look at Japan. Shrinking, not sinking. High debt to GDP.
@PaullLyons@catholicbob Even more generally, if you don't pay your debts to ANY party, they take your stuff to pay your debts, therefore I guess creditors own all your stuff.