The national debt has passed $40 trillion — that is $40,000,000,000,000, a number with more zeroes than most of us can comfortably count. The Congressional Budget Office projects a federal deficit of $1.9 trillion this year. We will spend more than $1 trillion simply paying interest on the debt. The numbers are sobering. But whenever politicians […]
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