John Dalt

Investing in Natural Gas: It's Time

184,000 X 0.43 = $79,120 hmm
easy enough
Maybe we need to add another few thousand for my worthless brother in law, and Oh! Bama's aunt (illegal, but won't leave).


On Aug 25 10:07 PM Mathguy wrote:

> I guess math is not the author's strong point in view of this howler:
>
>
> "... government debt stood at $184,000 per person in 2008..... 43%
> of all taxpayers owe no taxes, so it is left to the rest of us. This
> means you have to pick up their share too. So add another $79,120
> to each citizen that PAYS taxes for those that do not pay anything."
>
>
> If the author can't do basic math, why would anyone trust of the
> rest of his reasoning ?