r/PoursTea Timendi Causa Est Nescire 25d ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ Eventually something has to give...

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The bill would provide a $3,000 direct payment to every person in households making $150,000 or less during its first year, which equals $12,000 for a family of four.

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u/DJtheCrazed 24d ago

Billionaires hold 8.2 trillion collectively.

5% 8.2 is 410 billion. Someone multiplied by 0.5 (50%) not 0.05 (5%)

275 million people live in a household that make less that 150k a year

275000000 x 3000 is 825000000000.

8.25x1011 is 825 billion.

410<825

So this cant even fund the checks, let alone the teacher increase or Medicare.

So while we have a massive issue with wealth equality, let's think before we believe random meme online. Either the bill has massively more sweeping changes, or this post is a lie.

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u/LiveComfortable3228 24d ago

let's think before we believe random meme online.

This is wild.

Why would you do that? Its not like we want the truth or anything close to it