Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said he opposes raising the stimulus check amount from $600 to $2,000 as suggested by President Donald Trump and other officials.
“If we went to $2,000 per person, the additional borrowing would be up to almost $500 billion,“ Romney said, according to Utah’s KUTV. “Someone’s got to pay for that. We can’t just have free money.” (Source: “Romney Says He Opposes $2,000 Stimulus Payment Suggested By Trump, The Epoch Times)
What about the “free money” being given to all the other countries, the illegal aliens, and other nonsense in the bill? Why do Americans have to pay for that?? And does his claim that it would cause $500 billion in additional borrowing hold true?
Let’s do a little mathematical fact checking of our own shall we? Let’s use their numbers and do the math on the so-called $900 Billion Covid Relief Bill
Now let’s take these two numbers and total them:
According to Statista, 53.6% of Americans make under $75k/year. So of 220 million adult Americans, 117.92 million make under $75k/year.
If you divide the $284 Billion by 117.92 million adults who make under $75k/year, you could give each one of them $2,408 each with that $284 Billion! This requires adding no additional dollars to the $900 Billion bill.
Looks like Romney and the others aren’t counting on Americans being able to do some simple math calculations.
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