The so-called national debt is simply the cumulative amount of money the government has created (spent) but not yet deleted (taxed). Most of that is held as interest-bearing government bonds.
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Paying off a bond is as simple as debiting a securities account and crediting a reserve account at the Fed, no taxpayers nor grandchildren involved. Anyone who wants to eliminate the national debt wants to remove all dollars from the private sector.
What happens when you do that? Seven times in our nation's history, we've made significant reductions in the national debt. Those times resulted in 6 depressions and the Great Recession.
Be careful what you wish for.
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Be careful what you wish for.