Regarding stimulus checks:
I didn’t get one because our last year’s income was too high.
But I got laid off this year.
Now, admittedly, I got a decent severance package, and so my income this year will be too high to qualify for another stimulus check.
But, let’s be honest for a moment:
If the government is going to be handing out money, then I’d sure like to get some of it. I sure do pay enough in taxes to “deserve” it (certainly compared to my mother, who is on social security and gets a small pension, pays very little in federal taxes, and yet she got a stimulus check).
And if the point is to keep the economy humming or to keep the unemployed afloat, then, yeah, stimulus checks should go out to everyone, including those on unemployment regardless of what their income last year was, AND there should be an unemployment adder that is closer to $600 a week than $300.
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