None of the so called conservatives on this board have any real knowledge of economics....
They also seem to believe that borrowing money doesn't mean you have to pay it back nor do they understand the benefits of paying debt off.
They support politicians who spend like there's no tomorrow without any intension of paying it back so they have no idea what deleverage means nor the benefits of it.
An intelligent person who doesn't know what it means would logically take a few minutes to find out but as the person you're replying to shows, they're just to down right damn lazy to do that.
So they make total fools of themselves like the one you replied to by talking about such ridiculous things as taxes in a deleverage discussion.
It's the last and normal responsible progression of recovery from an economic crash. Borrowing is needed to get out of the mess. Once the mess is cleaned up, you start to pay back that borrowed money.
It's a total waste of time to try to discuss economics with conservatives.
Borrowing isn't the way to get out of it. Borrowing only compounds it. That's not even how it works anyway. The electorate gets hit by the Fed's collection wing, the IRS, and they then turn the haul over to the Treasury so that the Treasury can pay the principal plus interest on that bond that the Federal Reserve bought with a check which was drawn on an account that had nothing in it. That's how it works.
Agreed otherwise. The electorate would do well to study economic theory and monetary policy.
Anyway. Incom tax garners around 2 trillion Federal Reserve Notes per year. If anyone has calculated the income tax rate, in order to avoid a deficit this year, they'd have to triple income taxes.