According to the The World Factbook, the United States has a population of 303,824,646 as of July 2008. 20.1% of those people are under the age of 15, and so not paying taxes yet. Of the remaining, 12.7% are 65 and over, so we’ll assume they are retired. Our unemployment rate is 4.6%, which leaves 62.6% of our population between the ages of 15 and 65 who can be employed (or 190,194,228). However, the current labor force is 153.1 million people, which works out to be about 50% of our population. So if I assume that 50% of those retired worked and payed taxes in this country, that means our labor force plus 19,140,953, we currently have 172,240,952 tax-paying (or ex-tax-paying) people alive in this country – about 56%.
So of those of us who are alive who are currently or have in the past paid taxes, we each chipped in $493.49 to bail out AIG.
So my question is – now that I own a 1/172,240,952 share of AIG – where is my universal health insurance?