By Jason O'Day In 2018, the federal government paid $357.3 billion in interest on the nation’s fiscal operating debt—$61 billion more than the previous year. That is more than seven times what it spent on education and enough to build 27 aircraft carriers. The combined interest payments of the four years from 2015 through 2018 total $1.2 trillion. That figure exceeds each of … [Read more...] about The US Is Burying Young People and the Unborn Under a Mountain of Government Debt