Large numbers of people don't understand what a billionaire is.

If you, like most of us, ONLY make $1 million a year, it would take you 1,000 years to make $1 billion.

Or, if REALLY lie most of us, you make $50,000 a year, it would take you 20,000 years.

TWENTY THOUSAND YEARS!

If you tax someone who makes a billion a year at a 90% top rate, they would "only" take home $100 million a year.

#billionaires #taxes

@dcjohnson

A good analogy I heard recently:

1 billion = every second in 32 years.

I normally write out $1,000,000,000
and
$1,000,000
because all the numbers matter.