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Tax Day Ideas: National Debt Display

Sam Swedberg
Apr 8, 2010 at 9:04 PM
By Sam Swedberg

Make a massive display on your campus of maybe the largest monkey on the legislators' back -- the national debt.

National Debt

  • Make the display on a large poster or a large piece of cardboard.
  • Put an individual number on 14 seperate pieces of paper. Line them up and you should have a pretty big display.
  • Hand out literature about the debt and how even though we're taxed more and more our debt continually increases.

Be creative; there are plenty of possibilities that can be used to make the large national debt display.

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That number is terrifying. 

Roy Antoun's picture
Submitted by Roy Antoun on April 9, 2010.

This is what UW-Madison did last fall:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx91G5cFXlE

Barry Kuzay's picture
Submitted by Barry Kuzay on April 9, 2010.

The video is hilarious Barry.

Sam Swedberg's picture
Submitted by Sam Swedberg on April 9, 2010.

Because the number is off by a couple trillion.

$12,826,031,306,447

http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np

 

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Submitted by BZ (not verified) on April 10, 2010.

I think it's just an older image of a display a group did.

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Submitted by Bonnie Kristian on April 10, 2010.