Sentence examples for the same billion from inspiring English sources
Invest the same billion badly and you write it off even faster than that.
Leo Johnson put it another way, talking of capitalism that did not pursue "the American dream where you serve the same billion people nine times... rather, you serve the nine billion once or twice".
Well, it's not the same billion dollars that Facebook paid for Instagram, but Socialcam is one of the first to see an exit, as the app and team were just acquired by software company Autodesk for $60 million.
That ignores the fact that the tax hustlers then devise a new scheme or variation to recoup those taxes and more: "There's no question that Congress and Treasury keep raising the same billion dollars year after year," says Randall Weiss, an economist with Deloitte & Touche.
By contrast, the same billion invested in health care would create 12,883 jobs, and in education, 17,687 jobs or more than double the defense stimulus payoff.
(Most economists will tell you each billion dollars cut in taxes will have less economic impact than the same billion dollars in government spending (especially for tax cuts that mostly go to the wealthy compared to spending for those in the middle and lower income levels).
