Can you please explain what make on debt means here?
The richest 1 percent of Americans now owns 40 percent of the nation’s wealth, which is more wealth than the bottom 90 percent put together.
Which means a big chunk of the growing interest payments American taxpayers make on the federal debt is going to... rich Americans.
To make a payment on a debt means to reduce or pay down the debt.
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