In a way, d=she’s right. That’s why we are $21 trillion in debt.
... but, if they tax us high enough and hard enough, they can pay it off in no time!
“We” are not $21 Trillion in debt. The national government is.
It will never be paid back, nor was there ever any intention to pay it back. That’s not how it works. Sovereign governments borrow money at interest and make payments on the interest. The national government has been both “printing” money and borrowing for some time. The last “balanced” budget was in the 1950s.
At some point, the interest payments alone become unwieldy, and too large to make payments on. Normal or historical interest rates are in the 4 to 6 per cent range, maybe a little higher. Around 1980 “Tall Paul” Volcker and the FED raised interest rates to roughly 20 per cent in order to save the dollar. Unemployment spiked and a huge recession followed but they had no choice.
Nobody is going to raise interest rates when the bottom falls out the next time. The debt levels are much, much higher and normal interest rates alone would mean GAME OVER