1 g to the e-gold account of the person that has the closest answer to the below question. Answers must be posted here: http://free-market.net/forums/e-gold0008/ Deadline for answers: Midnight EST, Saturday, March 10, 2001. Question: What was the cost of running the US government in 1920, the year before Andrew Mellon started as treasury secretary of the US? Today, the US GDP is roughly at about US$ 9-9.5 Trillion. US taxes are right at 20% of economic output or about US$ 1.9 trillion Today (1998 - I don't have numbers for '99 and '00, but close enough to get the idea) Federal, State and Local receipts are about 31-32% of GDP or US$ 2.7+ Trillion. Bob "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." - Frederic Bastiat, 1849 --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
