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To operate the prison, administration officials have estimated some 3,800 jobs would be created in and around Thomson.
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The Thomson prison could house 35 to 90 of the Guantanamo detainees, said one source familiar with the discussions.
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3,800 employees for 35 inmates = 108 employees per inmate!?
3,800 employees for 90 inmates = 42 employees per inmate!?
So let's do a little "back of the envelope" math:
Assume a bare minimum $20,000 per year average annual salary per employee.
3,800 employees at $20,000 per year is $76 million dollars per year in payroll alone.
Add electricity, water, food, clothing, etc. and it is obvious (except to Congress) that the
plan contemplates spending over $1 million dollars per year per terrorist.
Using Tax Year 2007 figures (the last year for which complete figures are available):
141 million Americans filed and paid income tax.
The total amount of individual income tax paid by those 141 million filers was
1.115 trillion dollars ($1,115,504,000,000), yielding an average income tax paid by each filer of $7,900.
It takes the total income tax paid by 126 Americans to produce $1 million in revenue.
It will take the total income tax of 11,340 Americans to house the terrorists (whether they number
90 or 35) for one year.