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Why not divide the bailout money equally?

If there were 150 registered voters in the last election and congress is looking to throw $1Trillion down a rat hole, why not divide that money equally to the voters. It would certainly stimulate the economy, bring people back to work, home sales would go up, the big 3 would be producing cars. The problem is, that the guys in the middle who would normally handle the money before you get it, wouldn't be able to siphon off as much. Do the math, divide $1Trillion, bailout money, by 150 million registered voters and be amazed at the dollar amount you would receive, as compared to what you have received in the past.

Update:

*tax paying Americans would work.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    no reason.

    WARNING: I asked this question last week and it was deleted and the libs running Y!A denied my appeal.

  • Pfo
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Giving people money does not send them back to work, instead it creates a reason NOT to work.

    If you divide it equally among everyone, you change nothing. Printing more money devalues currency in existence, so you're essentially dividing everyone's money supply by the same ratio. You end up right where you start.

    "$1Trillion, bailout money, by 150 million registered voters and be amazed at the dollar amount you would receive, as compared to what you have received in the past."

    Now factor in the cost of mailing those checks out to everyone, and the cost of hiring staff to double check this. And the cost of ensuring everyone's check goes to the right place, and the cost of processing errors (because with 150 million people, their will be errors). And suddenly, it's not that much money.

  • 1 decade ago

    Why registered voters, why not every tax paying america. You ideology sounded good until you stated registered voter. At that point it got stupid. So tell me why registered voters and not tax paying citizens.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    It's called a stimulus check. Many people received the $300 checks several months ago. It didn't work.

  • 1 decade ago

    Because some are more guilty than others!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Works for me, let's do it.

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