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This unsustainable cycle is fueled by a stark fiscal reality: since 2019, for every dollar of new tax revenue, the government has added approximately $158 in new spending. The national debt grows by about a trillion dollars every hundred days. This level of recklessness reveals that raising taxes in the traditional sense cannot salvage the system; the math simply doesn’t add up. The tax code, a sprawling monstrosity of four million words, is designed for political favors rather than revenue collection and has become obsolete.