This is the Kator Daily Podcast for Friday, September 1st, 2017.

I'm Caleb Brown.

A fight that's about to break out is over the US total debt limit despite claims

that the debt limit will be increased in a so-called clean way. There's plenty of

reason to believe the fight will be somewhat more protracted.

Cato Senior Fellow Michael Tanner comments.

For a Republican presidential candidate, it was always my thought that the debt ceiling was the fight the fight the good fight the fight worth having the idea that to place

some sort of global control over the amount of debt that the United States can hold on to and then the other

arguments all fall underneath that kind of argument.

What do you think of that?

Well for Republican candidate that was sort of always the case, at least until Donald Trump.

Right, but it never, it never seemed to be a top tier issue.

I mean, they talk about debt in a litany of other things but it seems like it was never the front page item

Not really since Ronald Reagan to be honest has debt really taken center stage

But Republican presidential candidates always talked about it really taken center stage.

But Republican presidential candidates always talked about it.

Now when they got in office, of course, Republicans were very different.

Somehow it always fell aside. Treasury secretaries inevitably want to see a clean lifting of the dead ceiling.

They don't want to deal with the various complexities that will come up if the

debt ceiling is breached.

So what's the next fight look like?

Well, last time Congress didn't actually raise the debt ceiling.

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