As many of you are painfully aware, assuming you have not been hiding under a rock for the past five years our national treasury, and the wealth of our future generations has been hijacked in what amounts to the largest redistribution of wealth in the history of the United States (what, you thought only Democrats like redistributing the dough?). That’s right more more than 1.3 Billion dollars of your money and the credit of future generations has been redistributed into the pockets of bankers who opposed the regulation which would have prevented the near disaster we are currently suffering through as well as the defense contractors who happened to be close friends of the Bush administration. I realize there is divided opinion about the war in Iraq and all that jazz -and really that is not germane to the topic of this post- but considering all the money that the Bush Administration spent bailing out the wealthy who run the banks, military industrialists, and oil barons and fighting an unnecessary war I have to ask what would happen if instead of going to war and instead of bailing out Wall Street they had bailed out the American people?
Do your remember those puny little IRS stimulus checks that some tax payers got over the past summer? You know, the little checks that started at 300 bucks and went as high as 1500? The reason I ask is because those checks would be chump change compared to what the tax payer could get in return if the government had decided to equally refund the monies given carelessly to the defense contractors, oil kingpins, and bankers to every single one of us 310 million Americans.
If all 310 million American citizens were given an equal share of the 1.321 trillion every last one of us would get a check for 4261 dollars and 29 cents. Could you imagine how that would stimulate the economy? I promise you that this kind of money would prevent people from missing their rent payments, mortgage payments, car payments, they could pay off debts, and they could get food for their families and if they were fortunate enough they could start a decent little savings account.
It gets even better if instead of giving this money to every American, we make it mandatory that only taxpayers could get a stimulus check.:
For a nice round number lets say America has 200 million taxpayers. If we gave every tax payer an equal share of that 1.321 trillion we are talking about 6605 dollars.
