| ▲ | testing22321 3 hours ago | |
Interest payments on the debt will be $1.2 Trillion this year. There are about 164,000 individual taxpayers in the US. So each taxpayer is paying around $7,300 each just for interest on the debt. Which is more than Canadians pay in taxes for universal healthcare. | ||
| ▲ | TSUTiger 2 hours ago | parent [-] | |
Assuming you meant 164 million taxpayers... Your number is too low still. Half of those filers are not contributors, they receive refunds. The figure is more like ~65 million taking on this tax burden, so likely closer to 15k (rounding math) | ||