Learn Liberty is out with a tremendous video that attempts to answer the question: “How big is the U.S. debt?”
The video crunches the numbers, including the national debt totaling $19 trillion and unfunded obligations exceeding $70 trillion (that number is likely greater). Simply put: you could confiscate the wealth of the top one percent and use all of the tax revenues and it still wouldn’t be enough to cover this astronomical debt.
You can watch the video embedded below:
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