Confront the Debt
Interest payments now exceed National Defense and Medicare budgets
Low interest rates masked our debt for years. That era is over.
We now pay over $1 trillion annually in interest on the nearly $40 trilling debt, and that cost is expected to double over the next decade. Ignoring this guarantees a future of permanent inflation, crushing tax increases and deep cuts to the safety net that will destabilize our society.
Simultaneously, the clock is running out on Social Security. The trust fund is projected to be depleted within a decade, forcing automatic cuts to seniors' benefits.
We cannot tax or cut our way to solvency. The math doesn't work.
The only solution is to grow our way out. Status-quo politicians won't fix this. They have had decades to solve these problems and have only made them worse. They are content to manage the decline.
Growth isn’t just a goal. It’s our only exit strategy.
Let’s define our terms.
Deficit is the difference between what the government spends and what it collects in a single year. The United States’ current projected federal deficit for 2026 is around $1.7 trillion, which is roughly 23% of the total annual federal budget.
Debt is the total accumulation of those deficits, which we need to pay interest on each year. Interest payments alone on the debt are projected to be around 14% of the total 2026 federal budget.
Congress has spent significantly more than it collected for decades. Now, debt compared to GDP (Debt-to-GDP ratio) has surpassed levels not seen since the aftermath of World War II, and we are running deep recession-level deficits during an economic boom.
We are in a bind. As rising interest rates increase payments on the debt, they consume the funds needed for everything else.
Instead of facing this reality, the government is printing money to cover the gap. This fuels inflation, which in turn drives interest rates higher. It is a vicious cycle that makes the debt even more expensive to service while simultaneously driving up your cost of living.
There are only four ways out of this mess. Three of them are catastrophic.
INFLATION
This is the exact playbook used after WWII. The government forces low interest rates and lets inflation run wild making everything more expensive.
DEPRESSION
Congress makes massive spending cuts and tax hikes. Both remove trillions of dollars from the economy triggering mass unemployment.
DEFAULT
The United States simply stops paying its bills. The dollar becomes worthless overnight. It is the end of the American economy.
GROWTH
We Strip the Bureaucracy and Engineer Abundance to grow GDP faster than our debt. By holding the deficit at 3%, we naturally shrink the Debt-to-GDP ratio.
The first three options are unacceptable.
They don't just lower our standard of living, they threaten the survival of the nation. History warns us that fiscal insolvency is how empires fall. By ignoring the national debt, our leaders are letting us drift toward that same cliff.
We are playing a dangerous game. The US Dollar accounts for over half of all global trade, and US Bonds are the world's premier safe asset. This double demand is the "superpower" that allows us to run enormous deficits.
But this superpower has a limit. If we print too much, the Dollar loses value. If we borrow too much, US Bonds lose safety. If the world loses trust in either, demand plummets, risk increases and interest rates soar, ballooning our debt payments.
There is only one viable option.
I am running for office to force us through Growth. We must grow faster than our debt. It is feasible, and even strategic given our reserve currency status, to run a deficit but it needs to be kept around 3%. This creates a growth feedback loop. As the economy expands, a sustainable budget actually yields more government funding for infrastructure, healthcare and communities in need without raising taxes.
Career politicians won't touch this issue. They would rather manage the decline than risk their re-election.
They are afraid of losing their jobs. I am afraid of losing our country.
STATUS-QUO POLITICIANS WON'T FIX THIS.
They have had decades to solve these problems and have only made them worse. They are content to manage the decline. I am running to engineer a recovery.
The buck stops here. We have to fix it. I am building a coalition of independent thinkers who are ready to stop arguing and start solving. If these ideas resonate with you, come join the movement or see exactly who I am and why I'm running.