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Originally Posted by KootenayFlamesFan
It's not to everyone at all. And it's not for no reason. And if AOC and Bernie are correct that lowering it would mean less people would get money under that plan than versus under Trump it would look really bad.
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The first stimulus under Trump was needed to get money back in the economy quickly and made sense to get it out in a brute force way. At this point, there is a lot of stability in the overall economy, but certain sectors were hit very hard.
People making less than 50k or couples under 100k are all much more likely to have had their jobs affected by COVID. People making more are far more likely to have not had financial impacts. If there is not going to be a better effort to focus on people actually affected, it makes a lot more sense to direct it to the income brackets affected, and it should be a higher amount or a regular payment.
The government is piping more money into the economy than was reduced by COVID at this point. The correct solution to be to help the people affected, not to send money to everyone.