$600 × 328 million = $196.8 billion

This bill is for $900 billion.

Guess who's getting that other $700+ billion.
HINT: it rhymes with crony shmorporations
Oh and guess who's going to pay for it.

HINT: It rhymes with you, your shmildren and your grandshmildren.
Many of you have pointed out that not all 328M Americans will be getting $600.

That's correct. If you're a college student/dependent or make more than $99k, you're getting $0.

I was intentionally being overly generous with the math to show that you're getting screwed.

Again.
We have the highest levels of poverty in decades, while the stock market is at all-time highs, because government shut down small businesses, gave trillions to big corporations, gave us $1200 to spend mostly on loans/Walmart/Amazon/etc., and stuck us with the bill.
"But it's because of COVID" they've been doing this long before COVID. They just used COVID as an excuse to rapidly accelerate the massive transfer of wealth they've been conducting against us for over a century.
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