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The Problem No One in DC Wants to Talk About
While the Beltway class hyperventilates over the latest political gaffe and jockeys for position in the 2018 midterms, there’s one subject they studiously avoid: our nearly $20 trillion debt. I wrote about it for USA Today, but my chart above shows the facts better than any op-ed can.
Because most graphs look like this, I created my own user-friendly debt chart focused on three big numbers: deficit, revenue, and debt.