We are at $96/person, where did $260k come from?
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United_... [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_S...
The word ‘taxpayer’ refers to a different set of humans than the word ‘people’ does. Not all people are taxpayers. The point of breaking down taxes into a per-person metric is to understand how much each person will need to pay in net taxes in order to retire the debt. Why would you include people who are not net taxpayers?