Thursday, September 18, 2008

Day Eight: $1.32 Billion (Sept 16, 2008)

Policy announcement #8: $1,320,000,000
If they count yesterday as an announcement, we to count yesterday as seven.

Running Total: $3,580,000,000
What's 50% more? Pile it on!

Cost to each taxpayer $108.56 ($3.58 Billion between 32.976M of us):

How much you must earn for your share of new taxes to cover the Liberal platform to be 10% of what you make: $1085.60

Can I afford $108.56? Now we've cracked a whole hundred. I could make a dent in my credit card bill with a hundred.

Things you can buy with $108.56:
88 medium coffees from Tim Hortons ($1.22);

3 Copys of Led Zeppelin's Mothership ($33.99);
http://www.hmv.ca/hmvcaweb/en_CA/displayProductDetails.do?sku=1217887

1 Supercycle Impulse Boy's Mountain Bike ($99.99);
http://www.canadiantire.ca/browse/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524442687659&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=1408474396673786&bmUID=1221798535154&deptid=1408474396672192&ctgrid=1408474396672200&subctgrid=1408474396673786

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