Those who stubbornly pay as they go usually do not go very far. This has been the universal practice of governments and people for centuries. A better case could be made for prohibiting the use of credit cards among the general public. This is not to deny that all debtors should manage their credit standing prudently. The measure of their success in this is the interest rate they must pay to borrow and the readiness of lenders to lend.
Nobody commands a lesser rate than the United States, or raises money more quickly.
People, including a lot of Republicans, quickly learn to mistrust P.T.Barnums. There are also other ways, consistent with the foregoing, in which the Turks try to bring the federal financial structure down. One of these, their refusal to increase the statutory debt limit, is obviously of the same origin. Another is the block grant pitch. This invention serves their purposes like a dream.