Dear Mr. President,
Please find below my suggestion for fixing America ’s economy. Instead
of giving billions of dollars to companies that will squander the money on lavish
parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan. You can call it the Patriotic
Retirement Plan:
There are about 40 million people over 50 in the work force. - Pay them
$1 million apiece severance for early retirement with the following
stipulations:
1) They MUST retire. Forty million job openings - Unemployment fixed.
2) They MUST buy a new American CAR. Forty million cars ordered - Auto
Industry fixed.
3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage - Housing Crisis
fixed.
It can't get any easier than that!
P.S. If more money is needed, have all members in Congress and their
constituents pay their taxes...
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9 comments:
Let's see...how about because 40 million people times $1 million per person works out to $40 trillion. Given that the total U.S. annual GDP is about $14 trillion, we would have to pay every dollar earned by every person and corporation for almost three years to pay for this.
Even us liberals don't think a 100% tax rate for everyone (no exemptions and deductions allowed here) is a good thing.
In short, this is a bad idea because the math doesn't work.
Giving me a million dollars, however, is a good idea.
It'll never fly. Why...because it makes too much sense!
Oooooooooooooo. Now that's a plan.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOP'S. Someone ALWAYS has to ruin the party. Thank's a lot H-B.
Yeah, being good at math can be a real bitch, Toad :)
For the record, we just had a big debate about spending $787 billion on a stimulus package. $40 trillion is over 50 times that much! Not only can the U.S. not do that, the world could not do that!
The cost of everything would go up.
I'd buy a house and a car, maybe collage for the kids and I'm broke again and the cost of everything is still sky high...What would I do then?...
I wanna be too big to fail.
still made me giggle... even if the math doesnt work.. gotta hate that things have to make sense as well..
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