But it’s still a pretty impressive figure, nonetheless: Councilman Kwame Brown’s office sent out a press release earlier this week noting that District residents, as of Taxday Eve on April 14, had fronted a total of $1,013,552,816.98 to the Feds so far in 2009. Of course, this figure has likely increased by, oh, a friggin’ ton after the official deadline passed on Wednesday.

That said, you might be curious: what can you buy with 1.0135 billion bucks? Well, while you’re still $400 million or so short to wrestle control of the Redskins away from Snyder, you could take over the Nats and the Wizards and still have plenty of cash left over. Sports not your bag? How about private jets? You could buy three of the world’s most expensive, the Airbus 380. (Gas sadly isn’t included. Shucks.) Feel like doing some good for the world? You could hire 279 Ph.D.s in any field you like and have enough cash to fund their study for life. Or by engaging your inner McDuck, you could just convert it all to gold currency and go swimming.

Hmm. Seems like the only thing we couldn’t purchase with that kind of scratch is some representation in Congress.