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James Madison called public debt “a public curse.” The U.S. has been cursed for most of its existence, and the curse continues to grow at a dizzying pace. The only time in U.S. history that the debt was fully paid off was during President Andrew Jackson’s...
In March of 2018, President Trump signed into law a $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill to avoid shutting down the federal government. After signing the 2,200-page bill, the president proclaimed he would “never sign another bill like this again.” Could...