| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - That debt is sold at auction, so someone has to be a ???buyer??? of bonds. ???Consequently, the amount that the federal government spends for interest on its debt is directly tied to those interest rates,??? the GAO said. ???Under CBO???s January 2012 baseline budget projections, debt held by the public would be 62 percent of GDP in 2022 and spending on net interest would rise from $227 billion in
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