With our county in debt up to our eyes balls, I’m sure we are all wondering how in the heck are we going to get ahead again? Unfortunately, even when it wasn’t our choices, but the choices of our politicians that have put us into this situation, it will be our money that will have to pay off this debt. Alas, we are a country that is in it together no matter what. We have to work together and stop placing blame. We need to pay our taxes, and be good citizens. Right?

Maybe. But that’s not the way it’s going thus far. As the above infographic from Mint.com shows, of the 151,485,535 tax units, only 80,438,535 are paying off a debt of $1 trillion. Um. What?

Here at TalkingTaxes.com, we’re curious how our readers feel about this. Is this acceptable? How should we fix this? Should we fix it? How are we going to get our country out of debt, and return to our former glory days?