Debt isn't the problem, it's that it's not paid down when there is a surplus. We chose to cut taxes or create new entitlements instead of paying down the debt.

Debt isn't the problem, it's that it's not paid down when there is a surplus. We chose to cut taxes or create new entitlements instead of paying down the debt. Postscript: The "take from me by threat of force as taxes" makes you sound like a tea party nutbag or at best an angsty teen that despises parental authority. Perhaps you should have been born in a remote jungle to fend for yourself when you were a child instead of forced to live in a society which protected and educated you? At least you would have been free.