Also, that “national debt” is just the way we identify US currency in private rather than governmental hands. If we got rid of it, you wouldn’t have any of those $’s that you, mistakenly, think of as “yours”.

We absolutely should take their money, because their concentration of wealth gives them massive and corrupting power over civil society.

US currency is, by definition, not “private wealth”. It is the property of the United States. They let you/require that you make use of it*. Moreover, private property is, itself, a creation of government. Without the laws and institutions of civil society that codify and protect private property all you have is “the…

Whose money is it? It says right there on the money itself. I’ll give you a moment to look...