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November 19, 2009

Senate Health Care Bill Costs Taxpayers $6.8 million per word

^Senate bill has 2,074 pages and weighs 20.8 pounds

A true cost of $2.5 trillion, that comes out to $1.2 billion per page.

A true cost of $2.5 trillion, that comes out to $6.8 million per word.^

Washington has just run a $1.4 trillion budget deficit for fiscal 2009, even as we are told a massive, new health-care government program will reduce deficits by raising and spending about a trillion dollars over 10 years. To believe that fantastic claim, you have to ign...

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