If the government would everyone over 50 years old 1 million dollars ...

[Scythian_Reborn]

Patriotic Retirement Plan:

There are about 40 million people over 50 in the workplace. Pay them $1 million apiece severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:

1) They MUST retire. That means forty million (some attrition of course) job openings. Unemployment fixed.

2) They MUST buy a new American car. Car industry and manufacturing restored.

3) They MUST either buy a house or payoff their Mortgage. Housing crisis fixed.

That's it, we're only talking 40 million dollars in taxpayer money, not even worth a line item in the US budget.

This would be ample retirement money for anyone with their housing paid for and good transportation.

[dfwgator]

Little thing called “Inflation”.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Anything else I MUST do Herr Kommissar?

[Scythian_Reborn]

Sorry, 1 million in cash (no tax on this) is more than 98% of Americans will have at retirement. Your quip doesn’t cut it.

[Timpanagos1]

Sounds Great.

There would be no doctors over age 50.

Good luck.

[linear]

That would cost 40 trillion dollars (forty million multiplied by 1 million).

[Leep]

Where are they getting this magic money?

[eastforker]

Stupid. 40 million people at $1 per person is 40 million dollars.

[Mr. Douglas]

Yeah, How about raising the minimum wage to $100 an hour! Woo-hoo! Everyone would be rich!... Except a big mac would cost $40, as would a gallon of gas.

[ConservativeWarrior]

You lost me at buying an American car. haha

[Twotone]

This is like killing pigs to make the price of pork go up, as FDR did. These kinds of policies never solve the real problem.

Government IS the problem. Not the solution.

[9YearLurker]

You really don’t believe in limited government and free markets, do you?

[Scythian_Reborn]

Oh ya, sorry, lol, not enough coffee, who cares, have the Fed print it, we’re already half that in debt, the economy would roar and the amount of taxes collected would sky rocket.

[aynrandfreak]

Math alert! $40mil for 40 mil people is $1 each

[slumber1]

That's it, we're only talking 40 million dollars in taxpayer money, not even worth a line item in the US budget.

One more stipulation - you MUST purchase a calculator

[stylin19a]

untaxed ?

[EBH]

Problem...

I own my business and no, I am not ready to retire.

[Hieronymus]

Little thing called “verb.”

[jettester]

Missed a few zeros in your answer.

[catnipman]

Please note this from the owner of Free Republic:

“This is a news forum. But I sure am seeing a lot of vanity posts lately.

You know our readers generally frown on vanities (unless exceptional in quality) so if you feel the urge to post yet another run of the mill vanity, please resist it.

Or, in the very least, be sure to submit a donation along with your vanity submission.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3486530/posts

I suggest you donate an extra $100.00 to pay for your vanity.