Kevin Nelson, Minot

I cannot understand how our leaders in Washington plan for another $1.9 trillion stimulus program and such limited information on it is given to the general public.

Doesn’t anyone do the math?

This stimulus amounts to about $5,700 for each person in the country or in the neighborhood of $12,700 for each person who files a tax return. The payout varies with your income, but the most any one individual will get is $1,400. Even if each person who filed a return got the $1,400, it leaves a lot of money going somewhere else.

In fact, it would only account for about 11% of the total. Going further, it is projected that the sum of all Federal revenues for 2021 will be about $3.863 trillion of which a little over $1.9 trillion will be from individual taxpayers. Think of it, this one action will spend half of all the revenue for the year.

I would like for someone, our congressional delegation or someone from the press, to give a complete and thorough listing including: how many persons will get the $1,400 and how many a lesser amount, as well as the total of that give away; and a comprehensive listing of what other entities get money and how much.

I would also like for someone, anyone, to tell us where this money is coming from. Everyone if Washington, D.C. seems to want credit for this stimulus and thus supposedly saving our economy, but no one wants to explain who is paying for it. I think we, the public, deserve to hear all the story.