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Trillions?
by JaimeThompson 5y ago
Trillions?
- jonas21 5y agoYes, trillions. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/09/covid-relief-bills-us-has-spent-most-of-coronavirus-aid-money.html https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/09/covid-relief-bills-us-has-sp...
- JaimeThompson 5y agoThat is the total amount spent not the amount that citizens took home.
- jonas21 5y agoHave a look at the first chart in the article. It shows $844B in stimulus checks and $666B in enhanced unemployment benefits. That alone is $1.5T paid directly to citizens, even without counting anything else.
- ChrisLomont 5y agoRead the article 844B stimulus checks, 666B unemployment compensation, 145B other income security, 828B for paycheck protection (money lent to business to pay paychecks - goes to the people nearly as directly as the stimulus, and allows business to stay afloat).... It doesn't count the tax credits and other things that added to citizens handouts. A lot of the other categories went also directly to paying citizens. Read some about what happened.