r/Conservative • u/Pessimist2020 • Dec 22 '20

Americans Excitedly Anticipate Getting Paid With Their Own Money Satire - Flaired Users Only

https://babylonbee.com/news/americans-excitedly-anticipate-getting-paid-with-their-own-money
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u/jotnar0910 Libertarian Conservative. Dec 22 '20

Well 330m times 600 is 198b so less than 20%

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u/onebigdude330 Dec 22 '20

But there isn't money going to 330m people. It's only going to people making less than $75k a year. So are we talking about this going to 80m Americans? $100m? It should be illegal to pass a bill where at least 51% of the funds aren't directed to the main cause

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u/SometimesSpendsKarma Lockdowns are Fascist Dec 22 '20

I agree with your general sentiment, but damn dude, you think that a significant majority of Americans make > $75,000/yr.?

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20

We'll, only 209 million are over 18, so that cuts a chunk out that are (probably) not making more than 75k. I believe the median household income is around $68,000 so you're looking at a majority of the US population under 75k.

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u/TheBlindDuck Dec 22 '20

From my understanding, parents still get $600 for each child, with no cap for household size. The only people exempt are adult dependents, aka most college students.

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u/examm Dec 22 '20

Which blows my mind that they don’t also get the $600.

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20

The thought is that their parents are taking care of them... which is utter bullshit. My wife was moved out for years, and working at a kmart when she applied for college. Because she wasn't married yet and was still "young" they insisted on asking about her parents almost six figures income, and using that as a basis for financial aid.

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20

Just read up on it. Unsure of what's allowed to be linked here, but from some googling, roughly 160 million got it last round, and roughly 158 million should get it this round, because the qualifications are a bit different, excluding some people this time around. The main people excluded from receiving a payment are the wealthy, “nonresident aliens” and “adult dependents” who can be claimed on someone else’s tax return

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u/Leading-Bowl-8416 Dec 22 '20

Wait... so people with greencards get stimulus, but adult citizens who have their parents put them as dependent don't? Or am I misinterpreting that? If so, that's whack.