I’m not sure the money really exists in the first place.
$20, more or less.
Then again, I suck at math.
You could just write yourself a check. It’s your money to begin with. I’m out of checks, so can I use one of yours?
If 50% of us are TAXPAYERS, then $700 Billion divides up into $4,000.00 per TAXPAYER.
Pretty simple...divide $700B by the number of people.
If we didn’t divide it up, and we have it all to me, I would get 700 billion.
We should start a petition for that plan. I like it.
700 billion divided by 300 million is $2333.33
In my house, where we have 9 children, there are 11 of us, and that would come to $25,666.63
I like your idea.
:)
However, if you divided by the number of individual taxpayers (approx 60 million), it becomes $11,666.67
Still not too bad.
700B /300M = $2,333.00
Just to be clear about something that the media is ignoring, this money is not going to the employees of the investment banks or to the shareholders. It's going to be used to bail out the "customers" of the investment banks, so in effect it's already going to each of us. When we go to get money out of the bank to pay our bills, there will be a building there and a cash machine and tellers, instead of a closed up shell and a sign that says "Vote Democrat."
We are all getting the bill, not a check. And if the $2333.33 for $700 billion grabs you , think about this:
Annual budget is $2.9 trillion or $10,000 per man woman and child.
Assuming that the tax burden is always flat, which it is. (burden not collection). This spending alone is putting millions into poverty and has greatly expanded the perceived gap between rich and poor.
I think 700b / 450m = $1555.56
You can lable this anything you want, bailout etc., it still boils down to a redistribution of wealth!
I think its time for the Government to start selling much of its Government-owned Land to help pay off this new debt.
Based on data provided by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), the Republican Study Conference recently issued a report on the amount of land and buildings owned by the federal government. It revealed that “almost three-in-ten acres in the United States are owned by the federal government,” with the government sometimes owning more than half of the land in some states. In California, nearly half of land area is owned by the federal government.
Other key findings of the report show, as of September 30, 2003, 29.6% of all land in the U.S. was owned by the federal government, with total acreage of 671,759,297.7. Some of the states with the largest percentage of federal land ownership were:
1.) Nevada: 91.9% 5.) Wyoming: 50.6% 9.) Colorado: 34.9%
2.) Alaska: 66.7% 6.) Arizona: 50.2% 10.) New Mexico: 34.1%
3.) Utah: 66.5% 7.) Oregon: 49.7% 11.) Montana: 31.3%
4.) Idaho: 66.4% 8.) California: 46.9% 12.) Washington: 31.0%
The District of Columbia has only 26.3% of its land owned by the federal government although it was established as the federal city.
The report also detailed the location of federal land by region: West: 55.5%; Alaska and Hawaii: 36.4%; North Central: 2.9%; South Central: 2.9%; South Atlantic and DC: 2.2%; and Northeast: 0.2%. The RSC study also points out that only 2.4% of federal land is used for military purposes.
For buildings owned by the federal government, as of September 30, 2003 the RSC reported:
-Buildings owned in U.S. by the federal government - 432,791
-Number of square feet of office space within owned buildings - 3.03 billion
-Number of buildings leased by the federal government - 42,246
-Number of square feet of office space in leased buildings - 333.8 million
The report found that about one-fifth of the buildings owned and leased by the government are used for housing.
$2,333.33 if the population is 300,000,000
You have it backwards. We don’t get it. That’s what the BILL us!
303,824,650
2008 estimate
United States Census International Programs Center
700,000,000,000.00 / 303,824,650 = $2303.96 per person
Double that or more for per tax payer...
I believe our nation is at a very serious junction in history right now with so many threats from so many directions. The worst threat for Amercians is coming from our own corrupt, insane government. I feel our government is starting to lack any legitimacy.
Fergitaboutit unless you happen to be one of Paulson’s cronies on Wall Street.........