12-03-2008, 08:32 PM
According to a July 2008 estimate, there are currently 303,824,640 people living in the United States. Of this, it seems to that 203,987,724 are of working age and capable of paying taxes (excluding disabilities and unemployment), however the report has only 153,100,000,000 working. I assume this number was derived from W4 information, but then how do illegal workers factor in? Does this mean even less Americans are working? Anyways, my whole point is if American's have to shoulder this entire bailout package on their own without government help, then it would seem every working American will have to pay $7,000,000,000,000/153.1-mil people = $45.74 dollars. Oh noes... Even if there were interest on this thing (which there shouldn't be), that does not seem like too much money if you ask me. So, why is congress talking about raising the tax rate and charging Americans for the next X-years? What, they can't tack on an additional $45.00 to what I owe at the end of the year? How much will they actually get adding an additional tax over the course of several years? I bet a hell-of-a-lot more than $45.00 per person. This all seems very conspicuous if you ask me.
"The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self." -Albert Einsetin