Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Billions¿

What makes up a Billion?


A billion seconds ago was June of 1984. 

A billion Minutes ago was the year 116 AD. 

A billion hours ago was the stone age. 

A billion days ago was 2.7 million years and there were multiple species of hominids walking on two legs.


And lastly based on 2016 fiscal spending it takes the federal government 2 hours 16 minutes and 30 seconds to spend 1 billion dollars...all of these numbers change a bit as time moves on. But breaking that down one more time We find that the Federal government spends roughly $1.50 per hour per resident.  Then consider that onlyabout a third of the US population pays a federal

income tax.  That comes out to almost $5 per hour.  


I wonder how much the average taxpayer pays per hour in taxes upon work... ?