[Jim Noble]

Doesn't mean you can actually have any of my assets

No, I can't.

But when Congress borrows, they ARE pledging your assets, and unlike me, they can collect.

[JasonC]

No, congress is pledging the assets of the US treasury. The Fed isn't, the banks aren't, so it has remarkably little to do with the subject under discussion. As for how much I will pay in taxes, it has remarkably little to do with events in financial markets, and instead everything to do with which major party wins various future elections.