10 Sobering Facts About the National Debt

ByKeith Farrell
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10. Political Lip Service

Especially on the Right, the debt is a popular issue. So politicians will pay it lip service on the campaign trail. Do they actually have a plan of action, though? Or are they touting some pipedream of a plan that has more than a decade of budgetary adjustments? It’s easy to sound the alarm and get votes of fiscal conservatives, it is a lot harder to put a plan that will work to paper, because doing so opens too many cans of worms.

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