>>1827008The national debt has little to do with GDP or even national wealth, especially when it's mostly owned domestically.
> an almost unfathomable numberIt's not even 1.5x GDP. If you have an xboxhueg economy, you can run a large absolute debt value without issue. In the US case, the debt is entirely a political choice, and could be paid down in a few decades with little sacrifice demanded, if the will to raise taxes were there.
