$25, 573.48 - what Barack Obama’s budget will cost each taxpayer : Against Barack Obama

$25, 573.48 - what Barack Obama’s budget will cost each taxpayer : Against Barack Obama: "$25, 573.48 - what Barack Obama’s budget will cost each taxpayer

February 27, 2009

By Toby Harnden

So how much will President Barack Obama's budget cost us? The projected 2010 budget of $3.552 trillion can be found on page 114 of the 'New Era of Responsibility' budget here.

The US Census bureau estimates that the current US population is 304,059,724. Dividing the $3.552 trillion by that gives us close to the $11,833 that Drudge came up with. ABC's Jake Tapper reports that there wil be $989 billion in new taxes over the next decade.

I'm an American taxpayer and the starkest figure is what this could cost me. The latest figure I could find for the number of US taxpayers is 138,893,908 returns in 2007 here. By my reckoning, that's $25, 573.48 each."