See my previous post about the net worth of just the 400 richest Americans. If we seized (and I'm not saying we should) 1.9 TRILLION dollars from those 400, they would still have enough to have 4 billion dollars each and we could, for example, fund the SNAP program for 30 years. My point is that we don't have to pass this debt on, we could choose to get the people who are hoarding wealth to pay their share.