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Correction to "Pork, the new White House Meat"
March 5, 2009
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.
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Posted by MacedoniaHokie March 5, 2009
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Just realized I made a couple typos in the last sentence. It should read:
Rounding the stimulus to $800 Billion and dividing it among 200 Million taxpayers gives $4000 per taxpayer - not even close to $1 Million |
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