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From: rs55611@ihuxk.UUCP (Robert E. Schleicher)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Re: gunpoint
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Date: Fri, 12-Oct-84 13:39:18 EDT
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The so-called "fair-share" of the deficit was posted by someone as
$144,000.  First off, I'll assume that this is really supposed to
represent a per-capita portion of the national debt, not of the
yearly deficit.  Even so, a number like $144,000 is way out of whack.

I thought our total national debt was somewhat grreater than $1 trillion,
or 10 to the 12th dollars.  With 230 million or so people (men, women and
children), this translates to something more than $4000 - $5000 per
person.  I seem to recall reading a figure like $8,000 as the current
per-capita debt.  Thus, even if we are only counting members of the
workforce, rather than total population, $144,000 is much too large

(This is not to say that $8,000 per person isn't excessive; I think
 it is.)

Bob Schleicher
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