[Brookhaven]

The real point of this is to highlight just how much money we are giving away with these bailouts.

350 billion is just a number, too hard to comprehend. Every penny of taxes paid by everyone for two entire months! That’s something people can understand, and what the understand is that is an enormous (and unreasonable) amount to be giving away.

[SerafinQ]

I think that making the point of how much money it represents is part of it. Like I mentioned, people can also realize how much they are missing out on every paycheck because of the taxes they personally pay.

Also, the bailouts are not just giveaways, they are giving away money that they are taking from us by threat of force. At least a tax cut is not a giveaway...its just the feds stealing less from us than what was planned.