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Originally Posted by rubecube
Okay, so how do you means test in a quick way to determine who needs it? Is it just those who are unemployed? What about the ones who don't qualify for unemployment? How about people who aren't unemployed but have seen their hours or wages reduced?
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Unemployment covers all those cases. Funding should mostly be directed to further enhancing, extending and making it easier to get.
Give money back through tax returns this year to people who had a drop in income from 2019. Taxes will start to be done in the next few weeks.
At very least, make the income threshold a lot lower for who gets those checks and double the amount sent out. Lower income people were on average much more affected, so at least that would better target people affected, and not be sent to so many office workers working from home.
You keep saying means tested like it's an ugly word. I'm suggesting targeting to the people impacted. Blind Stimulus isn't needed this time around, we should helping the people who've been hurt financially by COVID.