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How can that be possible when we only had like a few hundred in checks, or some few hundred in additional unemployment for people who were unemployed?



Not sure if you're being intentionally hyperbolic...

But stimulus checks alone (ie free money for everyone under the income threshold of $75k) were over $3000 per person.

Additional unemployment was hundreds of dollars _per week_, on top of the standing unemployment benefits.


There are far more government social programs than unenployment benefits and stimulus checks.




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