I want my $500!
“For us to be different by $140 billion is nothing,” said the director of the Congressional Budget Office, dismissing the controversial discrepancy between his estimate of the prescription drug benefit’s cost and Medicare actuaries’ figure.
As long as us tax payers are picking up the tab, it’s immaterial. I figure the discrepancy costs each of us about $500 ($140B/280M of us). I’d rather have the money, loser.
July 13th, 2004 at 12:23 pm
No biggie; they were planning on borrowing the money anyway.
July 13th, 2004 at 4:49 pm
actually if you bump down the nmber to those who acutally pay taxes you refund gets bigger.
July 14th, 2004 at 7:30 am
I Want My Money
I’m with SayUncle on this one. I’d much rather have my $500….