We were paying it off at the end of the 90s, some projections had the debt paid off in 10 years, but then Bush 2.0's tax cuts and 9/11 wrecked everything. (I c

We were paying it off at the end of the 90s, some projections had the debt paid off in 10 years, but then Bush 2.0's tax cuts and 9/11 wrecked everything. (I could be off in some details, but I remember my despair when Greenspan gave Congress cover for supporting the tax cuts by testifying that it wasn't necessarily a good thing to be debt-free.)