so $5k x 262 million u.s. adults is $1.3 trillion, discretionary spending in 2023 was $1.7 trillion - ThreadSky

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whetmoser.com • 2 days ago

so $5k x 262 million u.s. adults is $1.3 trillion, discretionary spending in 2023 was $1.7 trillion

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$1.3 trillion is also about 300 billion more than the pandemic stimulus + the CTC expansion https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/03/11/us/how-covid-stimulus-money-was-spent.html

whetmoser.com•2 days ago

if DOGE cut $100 billion (they claim to have cut $55 billion so far), a check for 20% of that, as trump instead floated, would come out to $76 per adult

jcsalterego.bsky.social•2 days ago

i'm going back in time 50,000 years and stepping on every butterfly until this sequence of words no longer exists

jcsalterego.bsky.social•2 days ago

sorry butterflies

phineas.bsky.social•2 days ago

Hang on you’re telling me elon might be full of shit?

maniccage.bsky.social•2 days ago

I would simply expect journalists to do this math before publishing another lie as a headline.

byjonnelson.bsky.social•2 days ago

and all of that is coming from the whopping $55 billion DOGE claims to have saved

they are going to do it as crypto with a $5k "value" if at all

cofitzgerald.bsky.social•2 days ago

I was told the people wanted less inflation.

cbgoodman.co•2 days ago

Couldn't possibly be inflationary. There's no way. 🤦‍♂️

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