Posted on 03/17/2020 12:02:44 PM PDT by Kaslin
“immediate and direct aid to the businesses”
I thought this was a conservative website.
Loans to small businesses are called home equity loans.
Don’t own a home? Get a silent partner with one.
That’s what I tell everyone. I plan on ordering dinner for take-out tonight. My kids and their families are going for corned beef and cabbage where the tables have to be set 6 feet apart.
I will utilize the local grocer and Walmart and I have planned on spending more than normal in general. I made a large internet order Saturday. Through our business we will continue to buy everything we normally buy.
Within eight weeks most people will have gotten infected and the fear will be mainly gone.
Only really careful vulnerable people will be able to avoid infection.
We got red tide about 18 months ago here in Florida.
There was no mass federal dole payments to businesses.
2019 & 2020 self-employment taxation could be made personally optional in exchange for an eight percent future Social Security benefit reduction.
To these Leninists, wiping out the kulaks is a side benefit.
I guess you did not perceive that my comment was sarcastic. Point being that about 95% of the ridiculous crap we have to endure originates with those groups.
Collapse is what they want. This is a CLoward-Piven dream, overwhelming the system.
A month out...President Trump is suspending all taxes and closing most federal agencies. Nancy Pelosi is seen behind PREZ tearing up the tax code at this historic event.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54BCLYNkFKg
IMO best R&R song in American history. YMMV.
Totally agree with you. It is insanity, and I am really sick of the nationwide guilt trip being laid on anyone who dares question it.
"Never let a serious crisis go to waste..."
Me too. Weirdly, I was talking with a neighbor who is in the hotel biz and he was parroting the lines (”whatever the government says”) and then as we were getting ready to go back to the yard tasks we were working on, he said to me very softly “I agree with you.” But it was as if he was afraid of being overheard.
Very strange and disturbing.
It would be the time to do it..
I am crossing my fingers. Want to stimulate the economy even in a crisis? That’d be WAY better than giving out cheap money.
BTW, They are considering closing ALL interstate truck stops to fuel only. That, from one of the truck stop people on I 40 near here. I have a neighbor who works there.
Truckers are already refusing loads. The local Travel stop in the valley here ran out of gas-no truck delivery yesterday. Yesterday, they ran out of diesel.
We are about to see something none of us thought we would never see.
I do hope the hysterians are really happy. They got their man made disaster.
No sweat. Have a good day.
That includes our neighbor.
Our sons play together. But not now, because I took him to get a badly-needed haircut today (I’m afraid they will shut down them, too). They are scared of everything, and texted the other day about “the moms here decided it would be best to not play together because it might hurt someone they know who is ______” He was originally allowed because they thought being a single child not going anywhere and not playing with other kids (separate ‘hood, they back up to us), he would be OK.
Now I’m the bad guy because I must be irresponsible not shacking up at home (don’t even go to the store!) and I’m going to kill old people. Which BTW includes my 82yo mother, 10 min away, whom I’m trying to help through all kind of financial/bureaucratic crises after my father died Thanksgiving. But we’re vectors/domino effect for ALL kinds of diseases which also tend to kill these people!
When does this logic end?
I’m just kind of mad and sad for our son.
My question is the swine flu killed 14ooo Americans and the stock market and economy was fine and the hysteria was very low if not at all, why?
“...national retail sales tax...”-
That would require a constitutional amendment, which takes a lot of time.
Why would that require a constitutional amendment?
There are already federal excise taxes, on tires for example, that look a lot like sales taxes.
“...Why would that require a constitutional amendment?...”
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Unless you want BOTH an income tax AND a national sales tax.
Trump says we are at war with this virus. Do a symbolic speech and get a vote to declare war on the virus and grant Trump and the CDC powers to do fight it. Once he gets it, slash the government to the bone as well as any in-flight discretionary spending, and funnel it to speed up wall Construction and provide tax relief.
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