Hand out a dollar every second, and it takes almost two weeks to get to $1 million. It takes about 31 years to hand out $1 billion. And about 30,000 years to hand out $1 trillion.
American taxpayers are now handing out $2 trillion — 60,000 years’ worth of $1 per second. That’s what’s provided in the CARES Act, signed into law March 27. Ideally, we are handing those dollars back to ourselves in the form of payments to those with no safety net, to those who will quickly run through their savings because they’ve lost their jobs, to small businesses struggling to keep workers on their payrolls, and to pay for the critical medical supplies and support the front line workers administering the care our nation needs.
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