Not Funny

[Lloyd Danforth]

This is too true to be funny



The next time you hear a politician use the

word 'billion' in a casual manner, think about

whether you want the 'politicians' spending

YOUR tax money.

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend,

but one advertising agency did a good job of

putting that figure into some perspective in

one of its releases.





A. A billion seconds ago it was 1959.



B. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.



C. A billion hours ago our ancestors were

    living in the Stone Age.



D. A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.



E. A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and

    20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.



While this thought is still fresh in our brain, let's take a look at New Orleans It's amazing what you can learn with some simple division 



Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu (D), is presently asking the Congress for $250 BILLION to rebuild New Orleans .  Interesting number, what does it mean?



A. Well, if you are one of 484,674 residents of

     New Orleans (every man, woman, child), you

    each get $516,528.



B. Or, if you have one of the 188,251 homes in

      New Orleans , your home gets $1,329,787.



C. Or, if you are a family of four, your family

    gets $2,066,012.



Washington , D.C .. HELLO!!! ... Are all your calculators broken??



Accounts Receivable Tax

Building Permit Tax

CDL License Tax

Cigarette Tax

Corporate Income Tax

Dog License Tax

Federal Income Tax

Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)

Fishing License Tax

Food License Tax

Fuel Perm it Tax

Gasoline Tax

Hunting License Tax

Inheritance Tax

Inventory Tax

IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax),

IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax),

Liquor Tax,

Luxury Tax,

Marriage License Tax,

Medicare Tax,

Property Tax,

Real Estate Tax,

Service charge taxes,

Social Security Tax,

Road Usage Tax (Truckers),

Sales Taxes,

Recreational Vehicle Tax,

School Tax,

State Income Tax,

State Unemployment Tax (SUTA),

Telephone Federal Excise Tax,

Telephone Federal Universal Service Fe e Tax,

Telephone Federal, State and Local Su rcharge Tax,

Telephone Minimum Usage Su rcharge Tax,

Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax,

Telephone State and Local Tax,

Telephone Usage Charge Tax,

Utility Tax,

Vehicle License Registration Tax,

Vehicle Sales Tax,

Watercraft Registration Tax,

Well Permit Tax,

Workers Compensation Tax.



STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY? 

Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, 

and our nation was the most prosperous in the world.   

We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.



What happened?  Can you spell 'politicians!'

[J’raxis 270145]

A billion seconds ago was 1976-09-28.

[dalebert]

Reminds me of an expression I heard in describing Congress.

"A billion here, a billion there... pretty soon we're talking real money!"

[Free libertarian]

 Lloyd I've been writing an article about freedom stuff, I was looking for a source listing all the different types of taxes...think I'll lift from the list you provided.  Nice post.  

[Dylboz]

A billion seconds ago was 1976-09-28.

Holy Crap! I have been alive for just over a billion seconds! That's cool.

[Lloyd Danforth]

A billion seconds ago was 1976-09-28.

perhaps for a little while

[Lloyd Danforth]

Lloyd I've been writing an article about freedom stuff, I was looking for a source listing all the different types of taxes...think I'll lift from the list you provided.  Nice post.   

Glad you like it Bob.  It was sent to me in an email. I deleted the line:  "and you still have to press '1' to speak English", as I think  one has nothing to do with the other.

[Pat McCotter]

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/trivia/billions.asp

Using 1/1/1991 as a base year the year would be:
1,000,000,000 seconds ago =  1959 CE
1,000,000,000 minutes ago = 90 CE
1,000,000,000 hours ago = 112,085 BC
1,000,000,000 days ago = 2,735,859 BC

[Chemist]

approximately 2.9968 billion seconds ago a dollar was real and worth a heck of a lot more

(using 1 billion seconds = 31.7 years)

[Puke]

Tax victims, we all are.