In the letter title "Pork, the new White House Meat", the writer suggests that "simple math" shows that giving 200 Million US taxpayers $1 Million would be cheaper than the $756 Billion stimulus package.
Unfortunately, his math is wrong:
200,000,000 Taxpayers X $1,000,000 =
$200,000,000,000,000. That's $200 TRILLION.
Rounding the simulus to $800 Billion and dividing it among 2 Million taxpayers gives $4000 per taxpayer - not even close to $1 Million.
I realize this was an opinion piece, but shouldn't the editors indicate somewhere that the math is wrong.