If there is no action, the debt will compound at a substantial rate in relation to GDP.

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The notion that debt could compound without eventual higher taxes for everyone, not just the few, is a distraction, one that will destroy economic freedom.

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For some students, the concept of accrued interest on debt is as foreign as compound interest on savings.

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