Quote from: Darker45 on Today at 08:14:54 AM

There seems to be a qualification. This does not seem to be an assistance covering every single American aged 17 and beyond. I think those who are still employed and are receiving their regular salary won't be enjoying this.

Doesn't seem like it. Even non-working dependents would get paid under this scheme. This is what is says under "eligibility":

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Every American age 16 and older making less than $130,000 annually would receive at least $2,000 per month.

This is in addition to their normal salary, up to $130,000 annually.

Quote from: DooMAD on Today at 07:07:28 PM

I have to laugh when there's going to be more resistance to this than there is to all the occasions when they've just handed the money directly to banks to dick about with and pretend that "trickle down" isn't entirely discredited. Too much stimulus is undeniably a bad thing, but at least this time, assuming it goes ahead, the stimulus might actually live up to the supposed concept of actually boosting the economy. It must be a crisis when it finally dawns on someone to do things the way they should have been done all along.

According to Erik Voorhees' math, this will cost $400 billion per month. The guaranteed 6 months would cost $10 trillion. Not even that crazy considering we're all expecting corporate bailouts in that range anyway. I'd much rather it go directly to actual consumers than continue this trickle-down bailout bullshit.