Submission + - Is $17+ trillion federal debt a form of child abuse?
An anonymous reader writes: A new Indigogo campaign asks donors to help stop the child-abuse of children and grandchildren of current taxpayers due to the deferred financial burden of the USA's ever-larger $17+ trillion federal debt. Does especially the 20-year and 30-year terms of Treasury-bills meet generally-accepted definitions of child-abuse by shifting the obligation for trillions or tens of trillions of dollars one or more generations into the future by the use of these 20-year or 30-year Treasury-bills (or by repeated rollover[PDF] of 10-year Treasury bills)? Is the immense federal debt in the USA (and analogous sovereign debts in many industrialized nations):
1. a form of "neglect" to provide sustenance to the next generation (e.g., an inhibition of being able to provide proper care for themselves in the future as adults) or
2. a form of "mental injury" to the next generation (e.g., a terrorizing of the next generation) or
3. a form of "threat of harm" (e.g., "caregiver behavior which is out of control and threatening" to the safety of the next generation) or
4. a form of "child selling" (e.g., the unfree labor of involuntary servitude mentioned in the 13th amendment to the federal Constitution)?
For such a dry topic, the video embedded has an ominously-catchy tune, btw.
1. a form of "neglect" to provide sustenance to the next generation (e.g., an inhibition of being able to provide proper care for themselves in the future as adults) or
2. a form of "mental injury" to the next generation (e.g., a terrorizing of the next generation) or
3. a form of "threat of harm" (e.g., "caregiver behavior which is out of control and threatening" to the safety of the next generation) or
4. a form of "child selling" (e.g., the unfree labor of involuntary servitude mentioned in the 13th amendment to the federal Constitution)?
For such a dry topic, the video embedded has an ominously-catchy tune, btw.
