Interesting but not going to happen

[joeydb]

Originally Posted by jms62

Good luck with getting Congress to pass legislation that would make its own job infinitely harder.

They won't do it. I agree with you.

Then maybe they'll at least spare us the endless comparisons to how Americans run their lives at the kitchen table. The common citizen does indeed have to try to spend some fraction of what they take in - after they are taxed of course.

The government on the other hand does no such thing. They total it up, and add it to the debt via a deficit for the year. Simple as that. Which is how you eventually get up to 18 trillion dollars in debt and beyond.