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What's wild about cooperation on the scale of the US is that this project is almost free for the individual. 1billion is just $3 per American per year. So for a
by danny_codes 4y ago
What's wild about cooperation on the scale of the US is that this project is almost free for the individual. 1billion is just $3 per American per year. So for a "subscription" cost of just 25¢ a month, we all get James Webb telescope.
- pirate787 4y agoThere are 144 million actual taxpayers so the cost is more like $70 per taxpayer. Worthwhile but definitely not free or low cost. Another way to look at it is the average taxpayer paid $10,649 in 2019, so Webb required the entire year of taxable effort from 939,055 average taxpayers.
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- weaksauce 4y agoAnother way to look at it without making it look bigger than it is by omitting zeros from 144 million and including the zeros from the much smaller number: Assuming your average of 10,649 is correct, it's the entire taxable output for a year from 0.652% of the average tax of the tax paying population. 939,055/144,000,000 = 0.00652122