Why not pay down the national debt?

[John K. Taber]

Max, I saw your petition, and I need education, from you
or anybody who cares to help me out. Why not
pay down the national debt? As I read your petition the
objection is that the public money would not be available
for infrastructure and social needs. OK. But I remember
reading in Galbraith's _Money_ someplace that according
to Keynes the debt contracted in stimulating a depressed
economy was supposed to be paid down once the economy
got better.

Why is that invalid?

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