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BSdetect

(8,998 posts)
Mon Oct 3, 2016, 09:45 AM Oct 2016

A question to ask diehard drumph voters?

The question is an economic one: How many people can become billionaires?

If they have any interest in learning they will probably soon become tangled up trying to figure that out without claiming that if you work really hard you too can become a billionaire.





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lapfog_1

(29,198 posts)
3. 123,000
Mon Oct 3, 2016, 10:14 AM
Oct 2016

Assets of the US - debt of the US (all private and public)... 123 Trillion dollars.

.04 % of all Americans can become billionaires (at exactly 1 Billion each).

Yavin4

(35,430 posts)
4. 50% of Americans think that they will eventually be part of that .04%
Mon Oct 3, 2016, 12:32 PM
Oct 2016

If it wasn't for taxes that go to those people on welfare and food stamps.

That's the logic.

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