The Labour government's plans imply that all the additional money will come from the private sector.
Last week, the fund exceeded $550,000, with virtually all the additional money coming from lawmakers and groups like the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee.
Taxpayers will have to pay to inspect, correct, produce, transport, and secure all the additional money that will replace the botched notes.
The Fiscal Policy Institute, which has been supportive of minimum wage increases, argues that people who earn the minimum wage tend to spend all the additional money they receive, which pumps money into the economy.
"It's very popular, and frankly it also has a number of powerful lobbyists who are very capable of making the case for why problems in accident and emergency, problems here, problems there all require additional money, additional staffing and so on".
But nearly all the additional money is going toward purchasing water, not fixing pipes, he said.
But the fact that learning outcomes have remained fairly flat over the last decade, in most countries at least, raises questions whether all the additional money has been well spent.
The question is whether all this additional money put into the economy can make a difference between boom or bust?
All the experts said additional money made the most difference in disadvantaged schools, where they said it could work wonders, which was also the focus of the Gonski recommendations.
