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Originally Posted by nfotiu
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.
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Originally Posted by nfotiu
Looking around here, it seems there is plenty of money in the economy. Businesses that aren't impacted are thriving. The checks are just going to be spent on those industries and not on the industries that are hurting or the people who work in those industries.
If it happens, it happens. The Democrats promised it, so I guess it's better to follow through. But I don't agree with attacking D Senators who are suggesting that money needs to help the people who are out of work from COVID.
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The level of privileged gatekeeping oozing out of these posts is staggering.