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Because fundamentally the US government can print money to pay US debt.

You can't print money to pay off your household debt.

It's a different beast altogether subject to entirely different rules and incentives than household debt.

[fwungy]

Yes, and we the taxpayers get the privilege of paying interest on the money that is printed based on our nation's creditworthiness.

The debt can never be paid. It's by design.

[fundad]

With tax revenue on growing wages.

[joemazerino]

Printing money results in inflation. That was my original point.

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My point is just that national debt is more complicated than household debt. And every attempt to reduce it to household debt is flawed. They are fundamentally different.