Friday, January 31, 2014

A billion dollars


We often hear that the Koch Brothers are billionaires.  That’s a hard number to conceptualize, but there’s an ad on TV for H&R Block that says American taxpayers missed out on a billion dollars in refunds last year.  To illustrate what that looks like, they have a guy putting bundles of $500 on the seats of a huge football stadium.

Then the announcer says to get to a billion, the guy must place $500 on each seat in every professional football stadium in the country.

And that’s only one billion.

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