$17T....why not use the actual figures? Even low-balling it’s still, what, $90T+
Does paying off $17T suddenly make all those ‘unfunded liabilities’ moot?
Now wonder the (R)/(C) message never coalesces; it’s never on point.
You know how you do it? You send EVERY man, woman, child (especially those JUST entering the work-force), illegal, etc. a bill with the break-out over 30yrs+ in two columns. Then you give ‘em a choice: continue as we are and here’s your part of the bill (column 1) or we halt the whole she-bang and dump every penny into paying it off and NEVER again have a deficit (column 2). Let that sink into everyone’s brain re: Congress, stuffing every damn bill filled w/ pork. You want XYZ, well, here’s you portion of the same.
[I will note I am staunchly against ANYONE under 18 from any tally. And one’s own tally should start from their age of voting (if that should ever change). Since grandma/pa didn’t do due diligence on D.C., it is not up to the grandchildren to pay for their neglect.]
Keep in mind that the debt is not that of the kids and grandkids. It is the debt of the US Government. If the kids don't pay taxes and there is no Government to get on their case, they're fine.