Yeah, Pay Go used to keep it under control by forcing the revenue source for a bill to be described before a new expense was added. The trouble is the Republicans claimed that tax cuts would pay for themselves, but never did. It's just part of the class war, a transfer of wealth from the working class to the wealthy.

Related to this, I love posting from Lib-Talk.com. What is on that site about the National Debt is this:

The Republicans own the National Debt which they intentionally created to starve the government of funds to support social programs that might help ordinary Americans survive and possibly the Democrats politically.

National Debt:

Just who is responsible for that National Debt?

Donald J. Trump 2017–present- 4 years $6,807,290,102,465.77

Barack Obama 2009–eight years $8,335,071,012,541.80 (to dig out from the Bush Great Recession)

George W. Bush 2001– eight years $6,102,365,591,311.64

William J. Clinton 1993– eight years $1,395,974,529,060.68

GOP - 13 trillion

Democrat's - 9.5 trillion -

Obama inherited a crashing economy. Trump inherited a booming, recovering economy.

When you're financing the government with debt rather than cash, that creates a budget deficit that is then added to the National Debt. So yes, tax cuts increase the national debt.

So who was responsible for the Deficit Spending:

Reagan took the deficit from $70 billion to $175 billion.

Bush 41 took it to $300 billion.

Clinton got it to zero.

Bush 43 took it from zero to $1.2 trillion.

Obama halved it to $600 billion.

Trump’s got it back to a trillion." PolitiFact - 23 July 2019