Horace wrote: > On Jun 16, 2008, at 10:03 AM, Michael Foster wrote: > > > > > For example, the recent "meager" farm > subsidy bill was $307 > > billion! That's $1000 for each person in the U.S., > or roughly $2600 > > per household. How is this meager? > > I don't like to be picky, but I think that is roughly a > dollar per > person, or about $3 per household.
How do you figure? The farm bill was $307 billion, not $307 million.
$300 billion / 300 million people = $1000 per person, no?
M.
