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How Much is $787 B? Do you feel stimulated?

Glad you asked. Current estimates are that there are 304 million people in the US. This counts babies, prisoners, dogs and cats listed with SS numbers as dependents on tax returns, you name it. 

Okay I actually own a calculator that will take this many digits, no having to move the decimal over and the answer is 

787,000,000,000 divided by 304,000,000 is 

$2,588 for every man woman and child in the USA. 

Why not just send us all a check?
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3 responses to “How Much is $787 B? Do you feel stimulated?”

  1. Anne Sewell Avatar
    Anne Sewell

    I agree send me a check and I will be stimulated!

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  2. Margarita Ramirez Avatar
    Margarita Ramirez

    I’ll take the check as well, but it wouldn’t be enough to entice us to go out and buy a vehicle. Now if I received a stimulus check, got a sales tax break for a new vehicle and they stopped the withholdings of federal taxes and Social Security, than yes I would purchase a vehicle. But I don’t see all that happening, and the extra $13 on my paycheck is not going to stimulate me at all.

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  3. Ricardo Campos Avatar
    Ricardo Campos

    They should give everyone a check. The economy is a big cycle, if people spend money then business stay afloat and people have jobs. If not, the opposite happens and the consequences are the things that are happenings now.

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