[rayiner]

What does the “billionaire class” have to do with this? The total cost of bailouts in the US so far is $6 trillion. That is 45 times as much money as all US billionaires earned last year. It is as much money as all US corporations earned in profits in the last four years.

99% of all income isn’t earned by “the billionaire class.” It’s earned by the rest of us. We’re the ones who will be paying for the COVID-19 economic shutdown, because we’re the only ones with enough money to do it.