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Re:Nearly 12M Square Feet of Vacant Office Space in S.F by altdatathrow on Sunday October 25, 2020 @06:26PM (#24890581)
I know these are large numbers, but the 159 million economic impact payments cost $267 billion [1]. This article [2] gives a pretty good overview of the $4T spent in total so far

[1] https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/159-million-economic-impact-pay...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/business/corona...

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Re:Nearly 12M Square Feet of Vacant Office Space in S.F by xienze on Sunday October 25, 2020 @07:35PM (#24891174)
> I know these are large numbers, but the 159 million economic impact payments cost $267 billion [1].

Great, but the bill cost $2T. Same with the recent one that’s been put on ice. Because there’s no such thing as a bill that only contains direct cash payments to citizens, they’re loaded up with pork and stuff that doesn’t even having anything to do with the pandemic.

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Re:Nearly 12M Square Feet of Vacant Office Space in S.F by disgruntledphd2 on Monday October 26, 2020 @07:30AM (#24894969)
Read the WP article linked above, it's actually insane how much pork was in that stimulus.
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