America's soaring national debt is a looming disaster

Passengers wearing face masks wait for their bus in front of a national debt display on Pennsylvania Ave. NW in Washington on Monday, May 18, 2020.
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Even as we deal with the economic problems of the pandemic, there's another crisis looming: our national debt.
The problem in the US is our debt isn't the "good" kind of debt. Our debt continues to rise without promise of repayment, and a majority of tax dollars are spent on mandatory spending.
The debt