Issue 4

2007 USA Population 301,621,157

2007 USA population under 18 years old (24%) 72,389,077

2007 USA Population over 18 years old 229,232,080

Federal Budget 2007 $2,800,000,000,000

2007 USA population 2007 tax bill per person $9283
(Decide it would be great for little bobby to have a sibling, too bad you tax bill just went up $9283. No one forced you to have another citizen)

2007 Federal Budget Minus non-discretionary spending $1,543,000,000,000

2007 Tax bill per person minus non-discretionary spending $5115


2007 budget minus everything that fair taxers don't like (big assumption but I am feeling pretty confident)
* $586.1 billion (+7.0%) - Social Security
* $548.8 billion (+9.0%) - Defense (actually 699 billion including those pesky wars)
* $394.5 billion (+12.4%) - Medicare
* $294.0 billion (+2.0%) - Unemployment and welfare
* $276.4 billion (+2.9%) - Medicaid and other health related
* $243.7 billion (+13.4%) - Interest on debt
* $89.9 billion (+1.3%) - Education and training
* $76.9 billion (+8.1%) - Transportation
* $72.6 billion (+5.8%) - Veterans' benefits
* $43.5 billion (+9.2%) - Administration of justice
* $33.1 billion (+5.7%) - Natural resources and environment
* $32.5 billion (+15.4%) - Foreign affairs
* $27.0 billion (+3.7%) - Agriculture
* $26.8 billion (+28.7%) - Community and regional development
* $25.0 billion (+4.0%) - Science and technology
* $20.5 billion (+0.8%) - Energy
* $20.1 billion (+11.4%) - General government

2007 "truly fair taxers wet dream" tax bill per person $ 3684.7
(Getting Better. With all that money you save on your taxes you will have no problem paying the tolls on every single private interstate highway, paying for more expensive food, paying for air traffic controllers, paying to clean up the toxic waste site that a company created under your home before they built your subdivision but now they are out of business, live on the hope that nuclear power plants are operating safely. I am sure the private sector will deal with all of these things. )

2007 Household of 2.59 tax bill $9543.37

2007 USA median household income $50,233.00

2007 Minimum wage annual pay $9888
({[5.15 X 40Hours]x4}x12 Although I am pretty sure we cut the department that enforces this.)
At least, when you walk past the person making 100,000 you can look them straight in the eye because you paid exactly what they paid.