You analogy makes no sense to me. I presume that the parent is the government and the adult child is the citizen. That would suggest that the rent is taxes. Bu

You analogy makes no sense to me. I presume that the parent is the government and the adult child is the citizen. That would suggest that the rent is taxes. But that would leave there being no debt in the analogy which would rather defeat the point of it. So I have no clue how this is supposed to work.