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To: Dimples

It is not "pigdog's method" in #311 as I explained, but perhaps you can show us how many levels it takes to exceed "all Federal tax income" by exploding ad-infinitum using the parameters and methodology given??


457 posted on 08/28/2005 2:52:21 PM PDT by pigdog
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To: pigdog
It is not "pigdog's method" in #311 as I explained ...

Well, YOU posted it without any reference to any source. And given the inherent flaw in the table I, too, would distance myself from it if I had posted it :)

... perhaps you can show us how many levels it takes to exceed "all Federal tax income" ...

Sure. The algorithm behind your table (opps, somebody else's table) has an inital value of $1.00 and a periodic growth rate of 44.352% (that is 33% plus the 34.4% of the 33%, just like that table tallies them.) After 80 levels of growth, the inital $1.00 cost turns into a price of ...

... drum roll, please ... ...

$5,666,867,487,550.56!

That is well over twice the total amount of Federal tax collected from all sources.

463 posted on 08/29/2005 12:38:27 AM PDT by Dimples
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