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Another way to look at it is:
* The overall median income is $32k/yr.
* The average effective tax rate is roughly 43%.
* The federal budget is about 3.5 trillion dollars.
* There are roughly 310 million people in the US.
* The average person will work for roughly 45-50 years of their life
* The average life expectancy is 78 years
So...
* The average person will make about 1.5 million dollars in their lifetime (in today's dollars)
* The average person will pay $645,000 of that in taxes
* That equates to 20 years of your life, or 25% of your total life expectancy
* The federal budget alone is 9.5 billion (9,500 million) dollars per day
* That equates to 294,573 man-years of life, or 3,776 total lives, every day
So, every minute...
* The federal government alone "kills" 2.6 people and "gets" 6.6 million dollars for doing it.
* That's 2.5 million per "button press."
However, that assumes that everyone that "dies" is "killed" at birth. If you figure that the median age is 36.8 years old (or 41.2 years left to live), then you're actually talking about 1.2 million dollars per "button press." Which is pretty close to the proposed model.
In essence, Washington is pushing the button every 11 seconds.
In the time it took me to write this post, the government killed over 30 Americans.
Awesome, Math FTW
And I voted. Something along the lines of "Hit it like a retard with a hammer"...
As long as it was someone I dont know. As the OP stated.