[OldNavyVet]

What does a “trillion dollars” mean?

To comprehend “a trillion dollars,” consider how long it would take one person – you - to make a trillion dollars while working tax free and continuously (24 hours a day, 7 days a week) at a salary of $1 per second – that’s $3600 per hour.

Considering leap years, your tax free $3,600 per hour job would gross you a trillion dollars after 31,688 sleepless years.

At a more realistice $20 per hour, your tax free trillion dollar mark would come after 5,703,855 sleepless years.

[jellybean]

What does a “trillion dollars” mean?

What does one trillion dollars look like?

[badgerlandjim]

What does a “trillion dollars” mean? To comprehend “a trillion dollars,” consider how long it would take one person – you - to make a trillion dollars while working tax free and continuously (24 hours a day, 7 days a week) at a salary of $1 per second – that’s $3600 per hour. Considering leap years, your tax free $3,600 per hour job would gross you a trillion dollars after 31,688 sleepless years. At a more realistice $20 per hour, your tax free trillion dollar mark would come after 5,703,855 sleepless years.

You sir, are an alarmist. One trillion dollars could be quickly and easily raised in one short year by a mere 50,000,000 member workforce laboring normal hours while being paid an annual wage of $40,000 and taxed at the scandalously low rate of 50%.

Hey - it'd be for the chilruns, don'tchanknow. ;0)