> or the counterfactual of not having raised that debt in the first place

I'm pretty sure most of us would enjoy a different timeline where we didn't sink over $1 trillion in the Iraq war or another $2 trillion on the F-35, where we didn't mindlessly increase the military budget every cycle, where Republican administrations didn't cut taxes on the wealthy every time they won the presidency in the last half century, or where the TSA and DHS weren't created.

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Rekindle8090 2 hours ago | parent [-]

What do you think debt actually means? You talked about it in your first sentence, and then talked about something entirely irrelevant right after.

	▲	atmavatar 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		What do you think debt means? Every item I mentioned either increased government spending or reduced its income, both of which contribute to increased deficits and debt. You're welcome to argue whether I'm correct that americans would be better off without any of them, but it's simple math that every single one of them contributed to our current debt.
	▲	alsetmusic 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		If you don't count the quote (which I never do because it's not the words of the commenter), they only wrote one long sentence.