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Originally Posted by rubecube
Yeah, that's what I'm hoping is the decision that's made. Either that or just count it as income at tax time. Base it on 2021 income, too. Basing it on 2019 or 2020 income is just a recipe for disaster and they type of thing that could lose the Democrats the House in 2022.
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I’m unemployed.
I was a highly paid professional, so my 2019 income disqualified me for a stimulus check and, because of a decent severance package, my 2020 income does (and would) disqualify me as well.
My 2021 income would likely qualify me for a check, even at the reduced income level proposed by the Republicans, but I presumably wouldn’t receive such a check until 2022, and who knows what good that would do me then?
Regardless, my only real comment about the stimulus checks is this:
I am very much against reducing the income cap level in an effort to be bipartisan. Romney et al can’t guarantee that even their own group would vote for the bill even with the stimulus check changes made to it, so I don’t see the point in the Democrats lowering the income cap.
It just strikes me as the Republicans trying to negotiate for something and then not even voting for the negotiated changes, with the end result being the Democrats end up passing a watered down bill on their own—when if they had just stayed with the original, the votes would have been the same anyway, so that once again the middle and upper middle class gets screwed.
If anything, the Democrats need to go even bigger. Stimulus checks for everyone, regardless of income. $600 weekly boost to unemployment through September. $3000 checks to those with kids. Medicare for all. $20 an hour minimum wage.
Go big. Get it all done now, in one big bill. Heck, bring on DC statehood too and pack the court while they are at it.