I don't know about you, but if I were a business owner, and the manager I had hired to run the business couldn't break even during boon times for the company, I wouldn't be very impressed with him. I'd tell him to stop spending money he didn't have and start paying off the company loans. The politicians on both sides of the aisle try to tell us that we have a budget surplus. They are borrowing from social security to cover their increased spending. The debt continues to rise in spite of these false surpluses.
Tax cuts are a mistake.
We need to pay off this debt. We have borrowed money we're going to make our grandchildren's grandchildren responsible for, and that's more than a little selfish. Bureau of the Public Debt . Grandfather Economic Report on Federal Government Debt. U.S. National Debt Clock .