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Take your FICO and shove it!
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Consumer debt and national debt are entirely different
National debt is basically where money comes from in the first place. Unless you are willing to change the most fundamental, basic nature of how modern money even works, you cannot run a (major) country without debt. It's not even just a question of good or bad fiscal policy, it is literally mathematically impossible.
Can you give a short explanation or give me something where I can read something about it? I'm not sure what to search for to find something useful
This is Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). I recommend "The Deficit Myth" by Stephanie Kelton
It helped me to realize that a federal government that's in control of their own money doesn't use or even have money, and basic terms that we take for granted mean something different in that context. A federal government creates money through spending and destroys money through taxes. It is necessary for a federal government to spend money in order for money to exist in the economy. So a national debt just means that the federal government is creating more money that is destroying