What could you buy for $800 billion?
One year at a prestigious private school for every one of the 53 million K-12 children in America.
A $50,314 scholarship for every college student in the United States.
100 brand new Ford class aircraft carriers, or 178 Nimitz class carriers.
A 65-inch Mitsubishi LaserVue HDTV for every household in the in the United States.
A brand new $48 million building to replace every single one of the 16,555 public high schools in the country.
A $232,288 bonus for every one of the public and private K-12 teachers in the United States.
A $4.3 million home for every chronically homeless person in America.
A week at the Las Vegas Bellagio for everyone in North America with every man woman and child having their own room.
Enough gasoline for every one of the nation’s 241 million registered cars to drive from New York to Los Angeles and back six times.
An annual pass to Disneyland for every child on the planet.
A trip aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station for all 535 Members of Congress, and to keep them there from now until mid-April 2010.
That last idea is probably the best possible use of tax money.
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February 14th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
Wow. You’re just now getting around to the mental exercise of the cost of the war in Iraq?
Ed: Let’s see, almost six years in Iraq cost about $200 billion less than what we spent today. Or, if you add TARP into the mix, about only one-third of the cost of the inflation creation plans we’ve been heaping on top of the taxpayers over the last six months. Or, if you want to look at it another way, the “stimulus” bill was so large that it was the equivalent of giving $185,481,970 to the families of every single American service member killed in Iraq to date. That would have been a better use of our money.
March 4th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
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