Reply #4: It makes sense

[quaker bill]

Congress taxes and appropriates. It already has control of the debt. If they want less debt, they just tax more and spend less. If they want more debt, they tax less and spend more, like they did for the entire Bush administration. The decision about the national debt is made when they pass the budget. Why make the same decision twice? They passed a budget with a large deficit and a tax deal with a larger deficit to keep the Bush giveaways in place. The deficit is just a product of these previous decisions, it should be allowed to go where ever they have sent it.