One Billion Pounds

[Gilo-FZ6]

How many zeros in a billion?

This is too true to be funny..

The next time you hear a politician use the
Word 'billion' in a casual manner, think about
Whether you want the 'politicians' spending
YOUR tax money.

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend,
But one advertising agency did a good job of
Putting that figure into some perspective in
One of it's releases.

A. A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

B. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.

C. A billion hours ago our ancestors were Living in the Stone Age.

D. A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.

E. A billion Pounds ago was only 13 hours and 12 minutes, At the rate our government Is spending it.


Building Permit Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Income Tax
Unemployment Tax
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Petrol/Diesel Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
(tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Tax
Marriage License Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service charge taxes
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax
Local Tax
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Workers Compensation Tax

STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?

Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago...
And our nation was one of the most prosperous in the world.

We had absolutely no national debt...
We had the largest middle class in the world...
And Mum stayed home to raise the kids.

What happened?
Can you spell 'politicians!'

 

[Jez]

Fascinating.

Women had no vote, people regularly starved to death in the slums, life expectancy was 48, and 4 years later millions died in a war. Ah yes, happy days.

 

[oldfast007]

Even more fascinating...People still starve to death, in our "homeland" thousands still are illiterate, gangs rove every state, prisons are overcrowded, politicians still lie, having a child is now a "lifestyle choice" ya, happier days have passed...taxes have definitively made life better...



With apologies, it sounded so much like a US item, I couldn't resist, sorry to you UK folks....

 

[Andz]

There is also the debate whether a billion is a thousand million or a million million.

Here (and in the Netherlands, as Afrikaans is a bit of a Dutch/Flemish offshoot) there is a miljoen (1,000,000), a miljard (1,000,000,000) and a biljoen (1,000,000,000,000).

 

[k1c]

And we'd be riding this