Read post #299 again. Also read how the prebate is defined in the bill. A lot of the numbers you use clearly won't get the preate - and that's what #299 shows.
Those are certainly errors on the part of both you and Nightie. Either that or lies - you may decide which.
The $368 B estimate I used came from the family households number (an estimated 76,217,000) times the average prebate YOU figured of $4,845 per household. That works out to a bit over $369 B. THAT'S the orifice it came out of - yours.
Had you read more closely you world already have known that.
YOU may have used $500 B (more recently upped to $557 B and now dropped to $480 B), but others in you tribe of lost souls have screamed continually about the number being $600 B or more. It hardly matters since as I show in #299 (where your errors are described), it is clearly under $400 B ... WELL under).
IAE the discussion is meaningless since the prebate is not an entitlement but a refund of sales tax paid (or to be paid).
Come on pigdog, stop acting dumb. If they are not married, they are not part of the same family according to the bill. However they still fully qualify for a prebate as a separate family. I am serious. You are really not this stupid are you???? I can't believe anybody is.
There is no such thing as people whom "does not qualify fully" in the bill. Everyone qualifies fully if they are citizens. The only difference is adults qualify for $2181 and children qualify for $736 (2004 figures). There is no marriage advantage or penalty. Anyway you group them into families, it all adds up to the same. The simpliest way to calculate it is to find out how many adult and children citizens there are and multiply $2181 and $736, respectively. That would get you 2004 numbers, which is closer to what Your_Nightmare calculated.
If you used 2005 data it would be close to the $480 number.