A Billion Dollars

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Larry Rice

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Jun 25, 2008, 1:16:28 AM6/25/08
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How many zeros in a billion?

 

 

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 it's 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,

Mary Landrieu (D)

is presently 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??

 

Accounts Receivable Tax 

 

Building Permit Tax 

 

CDL License Tax 

 

Cigarette Tax 

 

Corporate Income Tax 

 

Dog License Tax 

 

Federal Income Tax < BR>Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA) 

 

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 

 






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

USA

at least 100 times 

 






What the heck happened?????

 


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