Really, WaPo, if your mission is to inform, please stop writing ledes like:

Interest payments on the national debt will quadruple in the next decade and every man, woman and child in the United States will be paying more than $2,500 a year to cover for the nation’s past profligacy, according to figures in President Obama’s new budget plan.

Everyone pays the same $2,500? — huh, I didn’t realize we had a regressive tax system in this country!