Why Did Americans Stop Caring About the National Debt?

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“Paradoxically, the faster government debt escalates toward an inevitable debt crisis, the less politicians and voters seem to care…. In the past eight years, President Donald Trump and then Biden enacted $12 trillion in deficit-expanding legislation” - Reason

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"Obama wants more taxes for more spending, not for debt reduction."

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http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/274171/unbalanced-michael-tanner# ]History shows us that countries as divergent as Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and Slovenia successfully reduced the size of their governments relative to their economies and lowered their debt burden substantially. They did so by controlling spending, not by raising taxes. ~Michael Tanner, National Review Online

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