Name: Bob Dodds
Hometown: Kill Devil Hills
Dr. A....
More fun with numbers, I have been meaning to send this for awhile. Given the corrupting aspect of fundraising for people in public office along with the current headlines, the following fun with numbers seems appropriate now. Of the 290 million people in the U.S about 170 million of them pay income tax, about 60%. The rest are children or dependent adults. In the last election cycle about 1.7 billion was raised and spent on federal campaigns. To account for inflation, we will assume that number jumps to 2 billion the next time around in '08. When you divide 2 billion by 179 million, the cost to each taxpayer would be about $11.49 Yes eleven dollars and forty-nine cents. So the question that needs to be asked, loud and proud, is; "would you spend $11.49 to relieve YOUR representative of the burden of fundraising?" We could call this the Chump change for big change campaign.
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