Maybe Visa executives need the money for this year's bonuses?

From AP via AZCentral.com -

MANCHESTER, N.H. - A New Hampshire man says he swiped his debit card at a gas station to buy a pack of cigarettes and was charged over 23 quadrillion dollars.

Josh Muszynski checked his account online a few hours later and saw the 17-digit number - a stunning $23,148,855,308,184,500 (twenty-three quadrillion, one hundred forty-eight trillion, eight hundred fifty-five billion, three hundred eight million, one hundred eighty-four thousand, five hundred dollars).

You know, I poke fun, but this scheme would balance the federal budget ($1 trillion deficit), California's ($26 billion deficit), Arizona's ($2.6 billion deficit remaining), the rest of the state government budgets (as well as county and municipal budgets) and have enough left over to fund health care reform *and* permanently fund the Republicans' Forever Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

And make Social Security solvent.

And maybe even allow us to establish a "rainy day" fund of a measly trillion or two.

Hmmmm...something to think about here...

Time for a new tobacco tax? Make it big enough and we'd only have to sell one or two packs to balance *everything.*

Hmmm....

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