Millionaire Leaves Entire Estate To Pay National Debt

FINDLAY, Ohio -- A woman who died Nov. 9 at age 98 has bequeathed her $1.1 million estate to the federal government and requested that it be used to help pay down the $8.1 trillion national debt.

And the interesting fact I found:

Bureau of the Public Debt records show that U.S. citizens donated a total of $1.5 million toward debt reduction last year.

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