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Interest is the United States' Second Largest Expenditure
Our national debt in America is currently $ 37 trillion. Our net interest payments are $900 billion per year. It is the interest is our second largest federal expenditure.When you look at America's debt situation right now, you talk about the big debt cycle. You talk about how countries go broke. How far along in the cycle are we. How far along is America.This year, the government will spend about $7 trillion and it will take in about $5 trillion. So, it will spend 40% more than it's taking in. And it reall ...