Taxes are often suggested as an antidote to debt, but are not debt and taxes the same thing?

Admiral Mike Mullen warned us was in his professional military judgment, the greatest single threat to our national security, and that was our Nation's debt.

We had better be sure that we are prepared to live with the market being created ... that's going to be called `Trumpcare.

In other words, when the Federal Government borrows a dollar, it borrows it from that same capital market that would otherwise be available to loan to consumers to make consumer purchasers, to businesses to expand jobs.

Every American has an up close and personal experience with the economy. They know what is going on in their own lives.

the deficit is just a future tax. We borrow it now and we pay it back through future taxes.

If most people were doing well in this economy, the Democrats would not have lost 67 U.S. House seats.

So, we are already approaching uncharted territory for this Nation, and the question I have is that on our current trajectory, are we courting a sovereign debt crisis?

There are basically two options that we have. One is to repeal it in its entirety and immediately replace it with the patient-centered free market reforms.

This Congress has a mandate to deal with it to relieve families of its burdens, to fix the underlying issues that spawned it, and restore what was once the finest healthcare system in the world.

I think any politician that tries to convince them that their experience is different than what they know is going to look downright foolish.

The more we raise their tuitions, the more we have to help students try to afford those tuitions by doubling Pell Grants.