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Learn what "public debt" is, most of it comes from the rich. Taxing the rich won't solve anything, when the rich here are already proactively extending credit to the government for the purpose of lower tax rates and lenient regulation. The moment you start taxing the rich more than they believe is worthwhile, they will abandon our government and take their investment with them because there are no laws barring them from doing so. This is partly why China is succeeding in this age of corporations, they don't allow companies to leave their shores without threat of being dissolved and assets seized, in that regard they are ahead of the curve. Both left and right here in the USA will argue that such a thing is anti-free market but it serves the purpose of insulating a nation against foreign influence and plutocracy or corporatocracy.