[starbird3000]

All this talk about debt and nothing about the main reason why: taxes are too low. By that I mean if you compare like with like, for example healthcare costs which are paid by taxes elsewhere, then in the US we're paying more for less. It's the same on nearly every basic service. Paying these items through taxes would reduce our overall bill and we'll have better services.

Also social security doesn't need to be cut, as much as the GOP would love to do so, you just need to remove the cap on the tax at $160K and suddenly it's solvent for the next 50 years.

There are very simple fixes to this, and most of them involve taxing the rich back at the rate they were taxed under Reagan and Clinton.