Debt reduction

It should be obvious to anyone but politicians with a philosophical agenda that we cannot pay off the national debt by only controlling spending or increasing taxes. It will take both. In large quantities. For a VERY extended period of time. Do you suspect that either party has any intent or even desire to do that? So, since we continue to borrow money, and our entire political system has no intention of paying it off, it would seem to me that our entire financial structure is built upon a fabric of lies. And yet we keep voting for Republicans and Democrats.