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Here is something I wrote a year ago, back when Bush was proposing a 2005 budget or $2.4 trillion:

According to Forbes Magazine, in 2003 there were 244 billionaires in the United States (down from 298 in 2000), and the total aggregated wealth of the 400 richest Americans was $955 billion (down from $1.2 trillion in 2000).

Now consider that for 2005, George W. Bush has proposed a federal budget of $2.4 trillion dollars, which is equivalent to approximately $8,700 for every man, woman and child living in America, and which will result in a spending rate of around $275 million per hour, 24-hours a day every day.

Bush’s proposed budget is so large that if our federal representatives taxed away 100% of every single dollar owned by the 400 richest Americans – an amount equal to 8% of America’s entire $11 trillion Gross Domestic Product in 2003 -- that scheme would generate only enough money to run the government for less than 5 months.

Bill Gates’ entire $43 billion fortune would be spent in just under a week.