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Aw shucks; what's another
billion or ten when the national debt is only 20 trillion?
I think it was John Foster
Dulles, a member of the Eisenhower cabinet who said," When you start spending billions of dollars, you're starting to
talk about SERIOUS MONEY “! Now
we're almost at 20 TRILLION DOLLARS in national debt. The country cannot keep spending at this
rate and survive as a viable nation!
This
is too true to be funny.
The next time you hear a
politician use the Word 'billion' in a casual manner, think about whether you
want the 'politicians' spending YOUR tax money.
A billion is a difficult number to
comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure
into some perspective in one of its releases.
A. A billion seconds ago it was 1959.
B. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.
C. A billion hours ago our ancestors were
living in the Stone Age.
D. A billion days ago no-one walked on the
earth on two feet.
E. A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and
20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.
While this thought is still
fresh in our brain... let's take a look at New Orleans ...
It's amazing what you can
learn with some simple division.
Louisiana Senator, VaMary
Landrieu was asking Congress for 250 BILLION DOLLARS To rebuild New Orleans . Interesting
number...
What does it mean?
A. Well, If you are one of the 484,674
residents of New Orleans (every man, woman and child) You each get $516,528
B. Or... If you have one of the 188,251 homes in
New Orleans, your home gets $1,329,787.
C. Or... If you are a family of four... Your
family gets $2,066,012.
Washington
, D.C. ..... HELLO!
Are all your calculators
broken??
And all you can do is give
us:
Building Permit Tax
CDL License Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Federal Income Tax (Fed)
Federal Unemployment Tax (FU
TA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges (tax on
top of tax)
IRS Penalties (tax on top of
tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Tax
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service charge Taxes
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax (Truckers)
Sales Taxes
Recreational Vehicle Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax
(SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal
Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and
Local Surcharge Tax
Telephone Minimum Usage
Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and
Non-recurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local
Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Tax
Vehicle License Registration
Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax
(And to think, we left
British Rule to avoid so many taxes)
STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?
Not one of these taxes
existed 100 years ago...
And our nation was the most
prosperous in the world.
We had absolutely no
national debt...
We had the largest middle
class in the world...
And Mom stayed home to raise
the kids.
What happened?
Can you spell 'politicians'!
And I still have to
Press '1'
For English.
I hope this goes around the
U S A
At least 100 times
