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Credit card debt is, in most states, entirely dischargable in bankruptcy. So while it would be unethical to take on all this debt specifically with the purposes of squandering it, the CC companies are extending you an unsecured loan. It's really not all that bad of an idea, provided you can survive a bankruptcy and a few years of exceptionally poor credit.



> while it would be unethical to take on all this debt specifically with the purposes of squandering it

Actually, in the UK, if they can prove it, it's illegal. Be surprised if that wasn't the same in the West.


I actually worked for a US Bankruptcy Trustee in Florida for about three years. It is illegal here as well.


in the united states, if you borrow with the intention of defaulting, it is illegal. What you do with your borrowed funds doesn't matter.


isn't that Donald Trump's business model?




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