Nothing is certain in life

But death and taxes. Forgot who said that. Either way. Think about the tax situation for a bit. We’re NINE TRILLION dollars in debt, since 1776. We’re a really young country, but we have a HUGE national debt. We have an estimated population of 303,810,000 people living in the country. I was unable to find how much was paid in taxes last year, but if each citizen pays $500 in taxes, the government gets $151,905,000,000. If we determine a billion goes to waste in paying the government workers, and ten billion goes towards the country, we have $140,905,000,000. If all that goes to paying the debt, in 63 years we have all of it paid off. Of course, we’ll have higher tax rates then. I know those numbers aren’t CLOSE to accurate, but if we paid MORE in taxes, instead of getting all these tax cuts, people would be slightly less happy, but if we pay $500 more per citizen, then that’s 32 years. Even if we spend even more on the government and fixing things up, we’ll still have it all paid off in about 40-50 years. That’s 1/5th to 1/4th the time we accumulated that. So if you don’t mind paying a bit more for taxes, and if the government gets an actual budget worked out, we’ll be out of debt! The economy will actually GROW! Hasn’t done that in a while. If we time this plan of action to coincide with a spike in the economy, it might bring it down temporarily, but if timed right, the US will prosper, the dollar will go up, and we won’t have an enormous national debt! [I know someone is going to get mad at me, so let me say this!: This is all pure speculation. But if we fix up our budget, this could become true. So don't blame me if this is wrong. I couldn't find anything to back me up on this, but just think about it. I don't care if you think this is bullshit. It might be! I have no experience with taxes, but if we all take one for the team...]