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Currently, 20% of tax-revenue spending goes toward servicing government debt and paying interest, according to the speaker.
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“currently 20% of tax revenue spending goes towards paying, servicing the debt basically, paying interest payments on the debt.”Play from 50:33Report a misattribution
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