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You prioritize. You live within your means. You do without those things that are nice to have but are not necessary to have.
That's what taxpayers do. That's what tax-takers can and should do. They just don't.
But do they? Is that why the average credit card debt is 15k dollars? Is that what something like 45% (don't quote me and no I'm not going to Google it) don't have access to 500 dollars? Is that why 2006-2008 happened? Is that why there is almost record setting number of car loans 2 months or more behind? Is that why college loan debt is where it's at? How about the amount of car loans where negative equity has been rolled over into it?
It's a good fantasy that the average American family laces up their boots and get to work on their debt. It just isn't the reality. If families are kicking the can down the road what do you expect their government to do?
I realize not everyone lives like this. As the "money person" in our family we certainly don't. I would hope you don't as well. But we are not the majority.