There are only an estimated 153,000,000 tax filers per year. So the real cost of the covid relief bill to taxpayers that actually pay tax is about:
$12,400. 1,900,000,000,000 / 153,000,000 .
To make matters worse, estimated 30% to 40% of US taxpayers won't be getting refunds because they make more than the income thresholds for relief. Those are the taxpayers footing the bill. That's alot of people.
How is that possible? And you said tax filers so that means even people who pay $0 in taxes but still filed, like maybe some business owners who can game the system. Then the unemployment rate is up to like 8% but where does the rest of that number come from? That blows my mind that there's that many people who don't pay, or even FILE for taxes!