Addressing The National Debt: Strategies and Debates

Jacob Sheely

Rhetoric and Research

Dr Palacios

February 15, 2017

The National Debt And What Should Be Done About It.

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Per usgovermentdebt.us the national debt is over nineteen trillion dollars. This extremely high amount could be America’s down fall, and how it should be lowered, is a widely debated issue. So how should this be done? There are many steps to lowering the national debt, the first and the most important, is to lower taxes. This is a majorly debated issue and the Democrats believe you should leave taxes the way they are, except they want to raise taxes on the rich, asking them to pay more, the problem with this is the rich are the ones who own

Businesses will have more money, and any smart business will aim to increase their profits. The best way to do this, is to expand the business which gives them the need to higher more employees, ultimately creating more jobs. This lowers the unemployment rate, all those people who were not working, and not paying taxes are now working and paying taxes, which will be a

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help to lowering the national debt. Lower unemployment rate mean less people on welfare, which is an expense the government has, which brings us to the second step to lowering the national debt.

Cutting spending, is the second step to lowering the national debt. The government spends way too much money by funding businesses, and giving money to unnecessary research. While presidential candidate Ted Cruz, was running for president, he gave a list of twenty-five things the government should cut out of the budget.

1. Appalachian Regional Commission

2. Climate Ready Water Utilities

Other things include turning health care over to companies, and letting them put their own plan together, which allows for some healthy competition, which in turn creates more jobs and

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keeps the government from spending more money on a health care plan. The only thing the government needs to increase spending on is military. Construction on roads, and government property, should be left up to the states and not be an expense of the government.

The last things I’m going to list is sanctuary cities and welfare. Thankfully, President Trump is defunding sanctuary cities, so I won’t spend time on this, however the amount of people on welfare is way too high. While creating more jobs should decrease the amount of people on welfare, this is still not enough. This is not politically correct to say, but there are a lot of lazy people in this country who don’t want to work, and who just want to live on welfare. There are two things that can help stop this, one is everyone most take a drug test every month before they are approved for welfare, and two is that you must show that you have an applied for a least six to eight jobs every month. There are a few other things that could be done, but these are two very simple