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Re:Surveilance bill rushed through Australian parliament in ... by SamoyedFurFluff on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @04:32PM (#28373231)
How can that be possible when we only had like a few hundred in checks, or some few hundred in additional unemployment for people who were unemployed?
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Re:Surveilance bill rushed through Australian parliament in ... by abeyer on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @05:26PM (#28373905)
Not sure if you're being intentionally hyperbolic...

But stimulus checks alone (ie free money for everyone under the income threshold of $75k) were over $3000 per person.

Additional unemployment was hundreds of dollars _per week_, on top of the standing unemployment benefits.

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Re:Surveilance bill rushed through Australian parliament in ... by mlavin on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @04:40PM (#28373341)
There are far more government social programs than unenployment benefits and stimulus checks.
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