Congress figures out new way to fund health care
Bookworm on Jul 15 2009 at 2:25 pm | Filed under: Silly Stuff
This morning, the headlines were filled with the House’s plans to fund health care, plans that include significant taxes on the well-to-do (whose numbers will shrink despite increasing demands for their wealth to fund the program), and financially onerous burdens on small businesses.
This afternoon, Congress has figured out a better way to fund health care:
A New Hampshire man says he swiped his debit card at a gas station to buy a pack of cigarettes and was charged over 23 quadrillion dollars. Josh Muszynski checked his account online a few hours later and saw the 17-digit number — a stunning $23,148,855,308,184,500 (twenty-three quadrillion, one hundred forty-eight trillion, eight hundred fifty-five billion, three hundred eight million, one hundred eighty-four thousand, five hundred dollars).
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Hmmmm….
Wonder what the Membership Rewards points are on that?
This gives me an idea: The next time we pay our federal income taxes, let’s each send the IRS a debit card for $75 quintillion that it can deduct our tax fee from. If they argue that there couldn’t possibly be that much money on the planet, refer them to Nancy Boy and his congress.
Maybe Bank of America’s computer calls itself Mike.