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16 hours agoUS states can't account for datacenter tax breaks. Literally
Many US states violate GAAP by not disclosing revenue losses from datacenter tax subsidies, costing billions in lost revenue.
But as someone who was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1984 on the very platform of fiscal responsibility-and who was the first practicing CPA ever elected to Congress-I want to sound a more fundamental warning: the number may be much less meaningful than meets the eye. We will never truly know what the national debt really is, or tackle it effectively, unless we adopt full-GAAP accounting at the federal level.