$322 for every man, woman, and child to pay for the TeaBagger’s little temper tantrum.

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The $100 Billion TeaBagger Tax
Posted on August 5, 2011 by emptywheel

Last week, when analysts were contemplating a debt downgrade, they put a price tag on it: $100 billion... http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/26/usa-treasuries-sifma-idUSN1E76P15120110726

A better way of thinking of it is how much every American will have to pay. That $100 billion among 310 million Americans works out to be $322 for every man, woman, and child to pay for the TeaBagger’s little temper tantrum.

To put that in perspective, that’s more than the 2008 Bush tax rebate gave to taxpayers (rebate checks started at $300/person).

So the TeaBaggers are now taking away whatever benefit we got from Bush’s last tax cut.

http://www.emptywheel.net/2011/08/05/the-100-billion-teabagger-tax/