Remember the national debt?
Well, it’s huger than ever, even though this year’s presidential
The
debt, at $19.3 trillion, is four times larger, adjusting for inflation,
than when Ronald Reagan lamented its size in his 1989 farewell address.
Yet only one of this year’s presidential candidates, Republican John
Kasich, had a plan for doing anything about it, and he left the race
after winning a grand total of one state. The two front-runners –
Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton – have said little
about the debt, except for Trump’s jarring suggestion that maybe Uncle
Sam can save a few bucks by renegotiating the debt and paying back less than 100 cents on the dollar.
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