Think about a debt owed. The IRS considers the cancellation of debt to be income. Since Ronald Reagan's tax policies we have seen tax rates slashed as the 1% who uses most of America's infrastructure, courts, and military had their debt to America cancelled. They have taken their ill gotten trillions and in complete deviation from trickle down invested in Condos, factories in foreign nations, and off shore tax shelters. If you combine the 7 trillion from the war on terror, and you combine the 10 trillion of lost income to America in the form of tax cuts for the wealthy, we would be virtually debt free. Run the debt up with war, tax cuts, and programs for the wealthy, and then turn around and cut programs for 99% of Americans.....medicare cuts, social security cuts, health care cuts..........shame.