US collects a cool $48.7 billion, oh by the way that was in one day!

The US government continues to take in an obscene amount of money in tax revenue. While $48.7 billion was taken in on April 24th. The US expects to take in $2.7 trillion for the year. Yet, we still run huge deficits because of ridiculous spending and programs like social security and medicare that are poorly run, inefficent and socilistic in nature.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070425/us_nm/usa_treasury_taxes_dc_1