Government take at the first Thanksgiving, nothing - $3.6 billion this year

[XNavyNuke]

Save A Seat for Uncle Sam at the Thanksgiving Table! (http://www.atr.org/save-seat-uncle-sam-thanksgiving-table-a6590)


Whether you stay home or travel for the holiday, government is a significant contributor to the costs of the celebration. Of an identified $10 billion in spending that occurs during Thanksgiving weekend on the wine and beer, the gas and plane tickets, and the meal itself, government taxation composes 35.86 percent of those expenses—approximately $3.6 billion in revenues.

Happy Thanksgiving!
XNN

[Steven Douglas]

As the Provider in Chief of all that we enjoy, venerable old Uncle Sam has an honored place at my table. And let us not forget our Uncle Ben of the Fed, without whom none of this would have been possible. Let us bow our heads - while they still attached.

[Becker]

A lot of other things were "nothing" at the first thanksgiving. I'm not sure you'd want to lose all of it.