Our government would be in big, big trouble if $16M were 2% of its daily take.
From Rush Limbaugh: “Apple paid $6 billion last year to the US Treasury. To put that in perspective, that’s $16 million a day Apple paid in taxes. Apple pays 2.5% of all income tax collected by the US Treasury.”
The point is that politicians do not like facts that might interfere with their preconceived notions. Facts that might put the issue in perspective.