Congress figures out new way to fund health care

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).