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> and what you do with a debt is to you pay it off

No, there is no "you" here. Politicians accrued those debts on something else's bill in exchange for legal bribe schemes.

Nobody owes those debts, legally or morally.

The people and the creditors both were trolled by professional hustlers exploiting the public liability and private benefit design features of socialism.

Democratic leaders, who are human and subject to economic incentives, almost inevitably play the game of trading the future earnings of another administration for the benefit of their own administration.

Government leaders have 130+ IQs[1], the populace has 100 if it's lucky. It's relatively trivial for them to craft a spin to consistently leverage these vulnerabilities.

https://www.quora.com/How-accurate-were-the-IQ-scores-of-the...



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