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.

[jpl]

One MILLION dollars!

[Rebelbase]

To make your $1 per person scenario work a new car would cost 2 cents, an average house would cost 15-20 cents.

That leaves between 78-83 cents left for retirement.

[USNBandit]

Duh, we print it.

[Right Wing Assault]

One more try. It's $40 trillion.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I’d go for that ONLY if the disbursement was tax free.

[normbal]

Exactly.

This “meme” has been all over the innerwebs and only affects people too high to math ( the lumpen proletariat, public education victims, simple folk, salt of the land, you know, mo-rons).

40 million people given ONE dollar each would be 40 million dollars.

[Tijeras_Slim]

[NorthMountain]

4E+07 * 1E+06 = 4E+13

That’s about half the WORLD Gross Domestic Product ...

[rlbedfor]

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[Mr. K]

only 40 people would retire?
check your math

[tx_eggman]

For your wardrobe:

[VideoDoctor]

The mathematics involved here truly reflect the mentality of those running the Government and those suggesting solutions.

They truly are "stuck on stupid."

[Mr. K]

40 million people getting 1 million dollars each would cost $40 TRILLION dollars

But yeah, that would set the countries' economic blender on ‘puree’

[WinMod70]

The decimal point is just off a smidgeon. LOL

[wastoute]

Why not? If a gummint can tell you have to buy one thing why not another?

[litehaus]

Even some here are not/ were not ‘A’ students at math..?

REALITY= That would cost 40 Trillion dollars (forty million multiplied by 1 million).

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

[Delta 21]

You obviously dont understand non-linear math.

[Larry Lucido]

Or just “retire” them. About a dollar each. Like in Logan’s Run.

[CMAC51]

Your phone probably has a calculator, you should use it. If you give 40 million people 1 dollar each it would cost 40 million dollars. If you give 40 million people 1 million dollars each, it would cost 40 trillion dollars. Not such a good deal.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Dibs on Jenny Agutter.