How much of the National Debt does each taxpayer really owe? Depends on your tax bracket…

I saw a tweet today that suggested that each taxpayer owes $138,345 to payoff our enormous national debt of $15,671,202,480,642 trillion dollars. But the way our current tax code is, there’s no way that would be evenly distributed to each taxpayer. So I did the math and here’s what each taxpayer would owe, depending on what tax bracket you are in. And it might be a lot more or less than you would think:


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