Not exact matches
The amount of
debt that is projected under the extended baseline would reduce
national saving and income in the long term; increase the government's
interest costs, putting more pressure
on the rest of the budget; limit lawmakers» ability to respond to unforeseen events; and increase the likelihood of a fiscal crisis, an occurrence in which investors become unwilling to finance a government's borrowing unless they are compensated
with very high
interest rates.
One wonders how the good justice would react to the civilization we are purchasing
with today's federal taxes, of which, in 1974, 46 per cent went for current military operations and another 7 per cent for care of disabled veterans and the largely war - derived
interest on our
national debt.
In line
with accounting conventions,
interest on the
National Debt is treated as part of public revenue expenditure, and therefore counts against the annual PSNCR.
Furthermore,
with deficits at record levels and
interest payments
on the
national debt set to rise at a real rate of 13 percent annually over the next 10 years,
interest payments could reach $ 725 billion and exceed defense spending by 2018 [13] if not sooner.