Saturday, August 06, 2011

IRS: Not enough rich to cover the deficit « Don Surber

http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/39534

A report from the Internal Revenue Service found that the rich — 8,274 people with incomes of $10 million per year or more — earned a total of $240 billion in 2009.

Even of you confiscated every dime they earned, you would barely have enough money to cover government spending for 24 days.

Of course, about a quarter of that money already goes to the federal government for federal income. So make that 18 days.

Read the whole thing.

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