How to make 200 Billion a little more real

[democrat in Tallahassee]

This is not new but it is effective:

Imagine that 200 Billion is split up between the 200 largest cities in America - What could your city do with 1 Billion dollars (1000 million dollars)

Tallahassee could sure use it!

[highnooner]

1. $770 Tax break

for every man won and child in the US

Or, $3,300 for every person in school

Or, 3/4's the cost of my health insurance premium for the past year.

[quaoar]

2. $200 billion

in one dollar bills stacked in a pile would create a stack 13,793,103,000 miles high. It takes 14.5 million notes to make a stack one mile high.

A stack of bills 13.8 billion miles high is enough to reach the current position of the Voyager 1 spacecraft that is approaching the outer edge of the solar system -- and part of the way back. Voyager is currently (as of June) 13.8 billion kilometers from Earth