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

Posted on 11/07/2016 7:47:12 AM PST by 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.


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To: Scythian_Reborn

Giving 40 million people $1 million is $40 TRILLION dollars.


61 posted on 11/07/2016 8:03:44 AM PST by cincinnati65
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To: Tijeras_Slim

I’ll take Farrah Fawcett.


62 posted on 11/07/2016 8:03:56 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Cool, we can work a trade later.


63 posted on 11/07/2016 8:04:26 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Tijeras_Slim

There you go!


64 posted on 11/07/2016 8:05:32 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Carly Simon is so vain, she thinks we think her insipid song is about us.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Answers the question, though, doesn’t it? The student should get full credit.


65 posted on 11/07/2016 8:05:40 AM PST by hellinahandcart
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To: Red Badger

“40 million people X $1 million = $40 trillion.....?”

Because, math.


66 posted on 11/07/2016 8:06:48 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the War on White People, is to recognize it exists.)
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To: Scythian_Reborn

This math-challenged post is kind of embarrassing.


67 posted on 11/07/2016 8:06:55 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Scythian_Reborn

I’m 74, older

I should get $1.25 million


68 posted on 11/07/2016 8:07:43 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Hilary is an Ameriphobe)
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To: Scythian_Reborn
You made a slight 'rounding error' in your calculations. 😉

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:

69 posted on 11/07/2016 8:07:55 AM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: Scythian_Reborn

“That’s it, we’re only talking 40 million dollars in taxpayer money,”

Your computer or phone has a calculator built in.


70 posted on 11/07/2016 8:08:24 AM PST by DBrow
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To: Scythian_Reborn

The currency would collapse.


71 posted on 11/07/2016 8:13:30 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Hillary doesn't belong in The White House. She belongs in the Big House.)
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To: Scythian_Reborn

Makes too much sense.


72 posted on 11/07/2016 8:14:02 AM PST by Liberty4California (Free California from the Leftists.)
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To: Scythian_Reborn

Your math is as bad as mine.


73 posted on 11/07/2016 8:17:52 AM PST by Bulldaddy
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To: Scythian_Reborn

Math problems aside, wire me my tax-free million and I will report back about how it goes...


74 posted on 11/07/2016 8:18:39 AM PST by GnuThere
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To: eastforker

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.


75 posted on 11/07/2016 8:19:03 AM PST by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: ConservativeWarrior

GM’s Cadillac division’s “Escalade” would be back ordered for a hundred years.


76 posted on 11/07/2016 8:20:41 AM PST by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: linear

I hoped someone caught that little error.


77 posted on 11/07/2016 8:20:52 AM PST by enduserindy (Republican's have sold the path, not lost it.)
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To: Scythian_Reborn

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


Uh, not quite.

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.


78 posted on 11/07/2016 8:20:56 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Scythian_Reborn

Math is hard.


79 posted on 11/07/2016 8:22:18 AM PST by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: linear
All those retirees could spend their time brushing up on their math skills.

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.

80 posted on 11/07/2016 8:23:27 AM PST by Defiant (#HillaryGropedMe when I tried to get her hands off my girlfriend.)
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