A TRILLION DOLLARS is a truly unimaginable amount of money. Most of us have a hard time thinking about what we would do with a million dollars.
- A TRILLION is a million times a million. If you want to write a check for a TRILLION dollars, it would look like that: $1,000,000,000,000.
- If you were to take 1.5 Trillion $1 dollar bills and stack them on top of each other, the pile would reach to the International Space Station and back over 230 times.
- If you laid 1.5 Trillion 1$ bills end to end, they would reach from the earth to the sun and then circle around the sun more than 10 times.
- 1.5 Trillion dollars could buy 174,825 of the most advanced Abrams tanks for the military.
On another page, we explored what Trump’s Big Beautiful Christmas Present will do for us. If you are one of 93% of all Americans making less than $100,000 per year, Trump’s tax cut is not going to make a big difference in your income.
Now, let’s do something new: Imagine the tax cut would not have happened. Instead of giving the money away as tax relief, the government could have kept taxes as they are, but instead spend that money on major initiatives that would have helped all of us. Just to illustrate what an unimaginable amount of money $1.5 Trillion really is, we have put together a shopping list of what the government could do:
The Government could start by providing an army of 10,000 additional policemen to make our roads and cities safer. At a total compensation of $100,000 per year, the Government could hire them not for 1 year but for the next 10 years.
Next, the Government could hire 10,000 additional teachers (at a total compensation of $100,000 per year), not for 1 year but for the next 10 years.
Then, the money saved by not having the tax cuts could be used to make sure that we have enough nurses in our hospitals. The Government still has enough money left to provide 10,000 nurses (at a total compensation of $100,000 per year), not just for 1 year, but for the next 10 years.
Now, the government could build 500 brand new police stations (at $ 1Million each), 500 new schools at $10 Million each, and 1,000 new hospitals at $50 Million each. All of this will cost only a tiny fraction of the $1.5 TRILLION tax giveaway.
In 2013, 2.5 million children were homeless. We are the only nation in the western world with so many homeless children. It would be easy for the government to provide $12,000 per year to each of these children to take them out of homelessness and out of poverty. The government could do this not for 1 year, but for the next 10 years and solve the plight of millions of children.
The government could also cover the cost of all school lunches for every one of our children in kindergarten. The government can do this for the next 10 years and would still have plenty of money left.
We still haven’t spent most of the $1.5 Trillion. In fact, there is still so much money left that the government could give a $7,500 check to help pay for college and university tuition for all 20.4 Million American students who are currently in college or university. Just imagine, if you or any of your kids want to go to college, the Government would provide you with this check every year for your entire 4 years of college education.
It’s almost unbelievable, but so far the Government has spent just about $1 TRILLION. If Congress would cancel their tax reform bill, the government would still have $500 Billion left to help make the lives of all American’s easier.
Let’s take about $300 Billion and use it to rebuild our broken air traffic control system together with a massive modernization of the nations most congested and most delay-prone airports. Now, that would be a Big, Beautiful Christmas present if you could plan to see your family anywhere in the country without the hassle, the aggravation, and the unpredictable delays of air traffic. $300 Billion will do the trick – and the government would still have about $200 Billion left.
So, by now, the Government has still about $200 Billion left. The Government could invest this money at a net return of 10% in a special fund. The money in this fund could provide health care assistance for 1 Million American cancer patients by giving them an additional $20,000 cash allowance to help them deal with the terrible burden of terminal cancer. The government could do this not once, but each year for the next HUNDRED years.
Now, all of this could be done with 1.5 Trillion Dollars.
Don’t believe us? Check our math.
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