Interest paid on U.S. debt.

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Paying $1 trillion in annual interest payments is bewildering.

An aircraft carrier is $10bn so this is 100 aircraft carriers every year. It’s 1,000 aircraft carriers per decade.

It would be cheaper to lose 1 aircraft carrier every 3 days than to service this debt.

It doesn’t seem affordable.