That’s kind of a stupid way to look at it if you ask me. Especially on the scale of a country. The more debt you have the less your money is worth. On a personal level I think people are far too comfortable looking at things like monthly payments in stead of what it is actually costing you.
It is what it is, I can't change how the CBO reports a surplus. The gov't took in more money than they spent. I don't see another way to pay down the debt?
I did mention the effect on our dollar's buying power in the first comment
True. You did. And you can’t it. However I have my doubts the surplus will go to paying debt. Not if congress has anything to say about it.
The entire federal finances is so convoluted that we have no real hope of fixing it. I'm half in the "accelerationism" boat; the only way to fix it is to break it.
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