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> Keep in mind it’s different to America, you get paid decent money from the state to stay at home. I wish this meme would die. People in the US got paid decen
by xxpor 5y ago
> Keep in mind it’s different to America, you get paid decent money from the state to stay at home.
I wish this meme would die. People in the US got paid decent money too.
The federal gov spent $3 trillion more on transfer payments in Q1 2021 than it did in Q4 2019. This is more than a doubling. That's nearly $17,000 for every human in the US.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/B087RC1Q027SBEA https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/B087RC1Q027SBEA
- SamoyedFurFluff 5y agoHow can that be possible when we only had like a few hundred in checks, or some few hundred in additional unemployment for people who were unemployed?
- mlavin 5y agoThere are far more government social programs than unenployment benefits and stimulus checks.
- abeyer 5y agoNot sure if you're being intentionally hyperbolic... But stimulus checks alone (ie free money for everyone under the income threshold of $75k) were over $3000 per person. Additional unemployment was hundreds of dollars _per week_, on top of the standing unemployment benefits.