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The average taxpayer now owes $25,000 on the national debt and pays $2,000 in interest on this every year, much of it to foreigners, who are using the money to buy American farms, buildings and businesses.
Our children and grandchildren will be paying this off for generations. We can’t afford four more years of Reagan-Bush prosperity.
AUGUSTUS C. JOHNSON
Syria
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