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Singapore owes more per person than us and can afford awesome food courts and clean streets. National debt isn't a bill divided up after dinner. It isn't great but it also isn't such an immediate thing that aggressive and indiscriminate whacking in all directions is the best solution. The idea that innocents must suffer en masse because we'd never get enough money to service the debt by fairly taxing the morbidly rich shouldn't be made unless first the morbidly rich were fairly taxed as a matter of fundamental fairness. That should be step one not putting them in charge of raping the middle class to get even richer.

Hi dogyks, For many yrs, I have believed that we should reduce the size of the fed gov't. Disclaimer: I spent 30 yrs for the fed gov't & am now a fed retiree. However, IMO a proper reduction [ subjective? - of course ] requires a scalpel and not a sledge hammer. And, yes: Trump is batshit crazy. I do not believe that down deep Trump really cares; remember, his first attempt at the presidency was as a Democrat. His true desire is just to himself in the news; the center of attention. Jerry Baumchen