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What Would You Do with a Billion Dollars?

ObamaCare is a veritable storm of corporate welfare.
By Logan Albright
07/28/2014

One of the most egregious features of ObamaCare are its so-called risk corridors, a fancy name for a large scale bailout of big insurance companies expected to cost taxpayers at least $1 billion.

When dealing with government spending figures, it’s sometimes easy to lose perspective. For example, here is what a billion dollars actually looks like:

One Billion Dollars

That’s a lot of dough! But even that is not enough to show what a billion dollars actually gets you.

For example, with a billion dollars you could:

Buy a major league sports team, like the Chicago Cubs.

Chicago Cubs

Build an awesome skyscraper.

Skyscraper

Buy your very own private island.

Island

Buy a fleet of 2,000 Rolls Royce Phantoms.

Rolls Royce

Treat every man, woman and child in America to a tasty cheeseburger.

Cheeseburger

Buy the publishing rights to the entire Beatles catalogue.

Beatles 45

Build a private spaceship, or two. You know you’ve always wanted to.

Spaceship! Whoosh!

Buy an entire country.

Seeland

Buy the largest rough gem diamond ever found. Ain’t she a beauty?

Diamond

Or, if you’re like Obama, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi, you could always bail out private insurance companies as part of your government health care takeover.

Corporate Crony

Tags ObamaCare Bailout, ObamaCare, bailouts
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