[thieving_magpie]

I'd really like to read more about how tax payers are paying $18,000 each but all I can find as a source is some twitter comment and a reddit thread where the claim is disputed. Do you have something more substantial I could read? At first glance it seems extremely exaggerated so I'd like to get my head around it.

[svachalek]

I think this is simply dividing the cost of relief packages by the number of taxpayers. It’s oversimplification of government budgeting to the point that it doesn’t mean much of anything other than to give a sense of scale.

[ttul]

Over-simplification in the extreme. Much of the stimulus was in the form of lending. The government will get most of that money back over time.

[BoiledCabbage]

Presumably the 6 Trillion collectively authorized, divided by the population of the US.

Or we could've all just worn masks and saved most of that but ya know...

[scruple]

I liked Robert Brenner's take on this situation, personally [0].

[0]: https://newleftreview.org/issues/II123/articles/robert-brenn...