{"id":258,"date":"2010-02-22T02:05:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T10:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bryanhadaway.com\/?p=258"},"modified":"2025-05-24T09:26:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T16:26:30","slug":"a-semi-rhetorical-us-debt-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/a-semi-rhetorical-us-debt-question\/","title":{"rendered":"A Semi-rhetorical US Debt Question"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is every born, adopted, or new American citizen automatically accountable for US debt regardless of personal accrued debt?<\/em><\/p>\n

I have never borrowed money from the government, received a school loan, or not paid for something in-full. I’ve not yet ever used a credit card either. I use a debit card and pay in-full with my own self-employment earned money. I’m not married and I have no children and no medical bills. In fact, the only paper traceable debt I remember having that I had forgotten about was a late fee from the library which I paid immediately out of good karma and doing the right thing more than anything.<\/p>\n

I know that I’m “in debt” or grateful to be alive in my country, but financially, am I automatically in monetary debt just by being a living American citizen? I breathe American air, I drive on American roads wearing them down, I buy gas, I shop in grocery stores, and buy name brand products which causes who knows how much of a footprint. But, isn’t that why we pay taxes? So really I suppose, I’d like to know is there any quantifiable method to formulate what I personally and truly owe, or is the National Debt simply divided up among all living American citizens?<\/p>\n

If so, what if I were to hand the government a check for say $40,000 and said okay, my debt is paid, could I, would I, really and officially be written off from owing anything further?<\/p>\n

Learn more here: usdebtclock.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is every born, adopted, or new American citizen automatically accountable for US debt regardless of personal accrued debt? I have never borrowed money from the government, received a school loan, or not paid for something in-full. I’ve not yet ever used a credit card either. I use a debit card and pay in-full with my … A Semi-rhetorical US Debt Question<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[253,251,252],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-government","tag-people","tag-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}