national economy and JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon is of the opinion that the 'Buffett rule' could help in clamping down US debt for now. According to the top bank executive, the United States could actively bring down run away boring without eliminating its spending spree, if the government keeps investing in the right initiatives.
In a PBS News Hour interview, Dimon asserted that the Warren Buffet rule, which states that no household with an income of above a million dollars a year should pay taxes on a lower share of their income than middle class earners. Buffett using this concept had previously criticize the fact that his secretary had ended up being higher tax rates than he actually did.
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The probable answer of getting rid of a massive amount of US debt could be calling for wealthy Americans to pay higher taxes than those in the middle-class earning category, so that the US Treasury gets at least some oxygen. This could be one of the viable answers to the federal government's skyrocketing debt figures.
If the debt figures remain unsupervised amid this ongoing scenario, the US could ultimately end up spiraling into a default, that could be very bad for the overall economy. This could also mean that the White House will have to spend less on social initiative due to the rising debt burden. At that point, even if the administration would want to increase their spending on
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