# Is US Federal debt sustainable?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-us-federal-debt-sustainable/711001>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 27, 2015, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-us-federal-debt-sustainable/711001 "2015-01-27T14:44:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-us-federal-debt-sustainable/711001/241 "2015-04-14T02:53:02Z")

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> [@JoeTheBartender](#):
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> Strip away the government legal tender laws and what do you have?  
> A worthless piece of paper. . . .

Um…so what? Strip away commerce laws, and your personal check is a worthless piece of paper. Strip away the law enforcement power of the state, and your title deed is a worthless piece of paper. Strip away the government’s power to legislate and administrate, and the constitution is a worthless piece of paper.

As no one has proposed stripping away any of these, your observation is vacuous.

(“If Karl Marx had been a goat, Das Kapital would have been written entirely without vowels.”)

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