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Ezra Klein
Via Justin Fox comes this revealing chart:
Fox goes on to post another chart showing that, historically, the amount were paying to service our debt is not, as a percentage of national income, all that bad. But as he points out, the people with the national income (hint!) and the people with the debt are not, in fact, the same people.
Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, and The Columbia Journalism Review. He’s been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more. More by Ezra Klein
