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@CClark The scariest thing isn't paying off the debt, of course that's never going to happen. It's that the policies they're pushing are causing massive inflation. The solution to high inflation is increasing central bank interest rates that push up other debt rates as well. If 28.2 trillion dollars in debt returns to debt service rates from 2007 (rates that were already historic lows), the amount of debt service alone will move from 400B to 1.4T. That extra trillion dollars in spending will have to come from somewhere. Either increased taxes, or massive program cuts, or both. Trying to just borrow more at that point will only cause federal bond rates to rise further, further exacerbating the problem.