With this in mind, The Daily Signal decided to put together some statistics to illustrate this just how much of a problem the spiraling black hole of debt is.
The Signal notes that Floyd Mayweather, the highest paid athlete on the planet earned around $300 million in 2015 from an average of 2 fights per year.
By this reckoning, Mayweather would not only have to fight every day to eventually pay off the national debt, but he’d have to do it for 331 years.
That’s longer than the country has currently existed.
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is one of the highest paid professional football players in the country. On average, Rodgers earns around $1.29 million per game.
In order to pay off just one year of INTEREST on the national debt, Rodgers would have to play over 406 THOUSAND games of football. It’s a game a day for over 1100 years.
That’s a lot of football.
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