Forty million people, each receiving $1,000,000, does not equal $40,000,000 dollars! It equals $40,000,000,000,000, or $40 TRILLION dollars!
The new US currency would be something l!Ike this:
Posted on 11/07/2016 7:47:12 AM PST by Scythian_Reborn
Giving 40 million people $1 million is $40 TRILLION dollars.
I’ll take Farrah Fawcett.
Cool, we can work a trade later.
There you go!
Answers the question, though, doesn’t it? The student should get full credit.
“40 million people X $1 million = $40 trillion.....?”
Because, math.
This math-challenged post is kind of embarrassing.
I’m 74, older
I should get $1.25 million
Forty million people, each receiving $1,000,000, does not equal $40,000,000 dollars! It equals $40,000,000,000,000, or $40 TRILLION dollars!
The new US currency would be something l!Ike this:
“That’s it, we’re only talking 40 million dollars in taxpayer money,”
Your computer or phone has a calculator built in.
The currency would collapse.
Makes too much sense.
Your math is as bad as mine.
Math problems aside, wire me my tax-free million and I will report back about how it goes...
You are correct but you fail the test.
RTFQ!
The proposal is $1,000,000 per person. That is:
40,000,000
X1,000,000
40,000,000,000,000 = $40 trillion.
PS Work hard and you won’t get left behind.
GM’s Cadillac division’s “Escalade” would be back ordered for a hundred years.
I hoped someone caught that little error.
“That’s it, we’re only talking 40 million dollars in taxpayer money, not even worth a line item in the US budget.”
40 million times $1.00 = $40 million.
40 million times $1,000.00 = $40 billion
40 million times $1,000,000.00 - $40 trillion
Not only isn’t there enough money for that, even IF it didn’t cause a complete financial collapse (and it would), it would create enormous inflation. Additionally, you are taking 40 million of the most experienced people out of the workforce in your scenario - the people who actually KNOW how things work.
This is a big government solution - stay away from it.
Math is hard.
Or, we push this through and when people figure out it's 40 trillion not 40 million, we say "oops" just like they did with Obamacare.
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