Comment by throw0101d

> The real problem is the government printing money. What we call the "national debt" is just government printed money […]

The vast majority of money that is in the economy is created by banks with credit creation:

* https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/2014/q1/m...

* https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1905625

The government, especially in the US, hasn't had a money printer for decades.