You mean by printing all the money it needs? Well, that would cause severe inflation, and put us in a worse situation. No one even suggested that as a solution. You didn't answer the question in any way, you just assumed they meant by printing more money. The national debt at the moment is 9 trillion dollars. Maybe that will help explain why it is yet unpaid.
If there is no additional interest on the debt, so that it doesn't grow during the time you're paying it off, then at the rate of $5,000 per second, you can pay off $16 trillion in only 101.4 years.
Officially the estimated national debt of the United States for 2009 is: 12,867,500,000,000 However this figured does not include some long term obligations that could double the cost. In perspective if you made one dollar every second for the next 408,025 years, you would be able to pay it off (at the 12 trillion figure).
He shows her as petty and yet willing to work hard to pay off the debt.
That would depend on several variables: -- The interest rate on the debt. -- How often you make a payment. -- The amount of each payment.
"Pay" means to exchange something (usually money) for something or for some debt owed (usually for a thing or a receipt of payment).Therefore, "2 not pay" means you did "not pay" or you were not required to pay.
Hamilton's plan to pay off the national debt had three parts. The first was to pay off all war debt, next was to raise government revenue and last to create a national bank.
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They confiscate the property of the Catholic Church and the emigres.
Jefferson wanted to pay off the debt; Hamilton did not.
Jefferson wanted to pay off the debt; Hamilton did not.
They would give them whiskey.
Andrew Jackson was the only president to date to actually pay off the national debt. President Jackson paid off the debt in 1835. He was a wise man by doing so. Many people get confused and believe that there is no national debt when there is a surplus. The last president to balance the budget and regain a surplus of revenue was Bill Clinton and he did it only for one fiscal year.