re: #79 Big Beautiful Door

The national debt isn’t a problem at all, much less our #1 crisis. But that is a message rightwing media has been spewing for eight years.

Some of us old lizards recall interest rates that were substantially higher than today — banks were paying 12% on CD’s in the early 80’s. The only reason that the national debt isn’t a problem is that interest rates have remained so low over the past decade and longer. If we are faced with a similar economic crisis as in the 1970’s, something that may indeed happen under this feckless, traitorous regime, the debt may again become a fiscal problem for us.

In any case, raising taxes on those who can best afford seems like a rational solution in all cases.