The national debt is also known as the federal debt is the total of all the budget deficits of the previous year subtracting the surpluses the government has paid off with. A deficit is how the government spends more than it collects in taxes in a single year and how the money the government borrows is added to the debt. A Surplus is how the government spends less than it collects in taxes in a single year ,the extra tax revenue will go toward paying down the debt. I believe that the national debt will never be paid off if the government keeps up whatever its doing because the limit on how much The United States should spend, goes up each year. The United States should lower taxes but at the same time come up with different ways on getting income to go towards paying the national
The national debt is also known as the federal debt is the total of all the budget deficits of the previous year subtracting the surpluses the government has paid off with. A deficit is how the government spends more than it collects in taxes in a single year and how the money the government borrows is added to the debt. A Surplus is how the government spends less than it collects in taxes in a single year ,the extra tax revenue will go toward paying down the debt. I believe that the national debt will never be paid off if the government keeps up whatever its doing because the limit on how much The United States should spend, goes up each year. The United States should lower taxes but at the same time come up with different ways on getting income to go towards paying the national