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Stimulus Cafe Special: Mystery Meat Pie

Stimulus Breakdown

Via the New York Times Economix blog, a graph of the proposed stimulus package, currently in the House:

The “???” is explained as follows:

The summary’s introduction says the bill will contain “$275 billion in economic recovery tax cuts and $550 billion in thoughtful and carefully targeted priority investments with unprecedented accountability measures built in.” But those accountability measures seem to have a giant loophole; in the “executive summary” of spending measures that immediately follows this grandiose statement, the various spending programs total only $518.7 billion. So they’re, you know, just $31.3 billion short. (To be fair, there’s a much, much longer list that follows that I have not yet had a chance to tally up, but I will hunt for the missing $31.3 billion there.)

In any case, I took the liberty of plugging all those figures into Excel to give you a sense of how the package is distributed. The category names are all taken from the report, with the exception of “???,” which I used to refer to the $31.3 billion unaccounted for in the executive summary.

Kosmopolitan contributor Connor Mendenhall, however, knows exactly where “???” is going:

Those military Keynesian multipliers, they’re hard to pass up

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Evan Lisull - who has written 120 posts on The Kosmopolitan Online.


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One Response to “Stimulus Cafe Special: Mystery Meat Pie”

  1. I take it back. Death star should be at the top.

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