Posted on 08/05/2021 8:21:56 PM PDT by blueplum
Tlaib is expected to introduce legislation to cancel utility bill debt on Friday
Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib is pushing for legislation that would let people who fail to pay their water, electricity or broadband bills off the hook.
"Cancel water, electricity and broadband debt," the Squad member tweeted Wednesday morning. "#StopTheShutoffs."
She changed her messaging Thursday afternoon – calling for a bailout instead of outright cancellation....
In an interview with the Detroit News, the left-wing congresswoman blamed the pandemic for unpaid bills but stopped short of addressing the causes ...
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Free stuff for poor people! I have no idea how economics work - houses and water and food just magically grow off of gumdrop trees!
Throttle their internet to dial-up speed. Enough for the yout’s to upload their homework but not enough for streaming or porn.
I don’t suppose the “takings clause” of the Constitution is anything she has to be concerned about.
The unpaid utility bills will have to be compensated for by someone & that could mean by others who could ill afford them in the first place.
Any device to slowly but steadily kill the economy.
It is the way of the Marxists!
Cloward/Piven as described by Glenn beck long ago.
I heard the moratorium on evictions expired.
But then i heard the CDC somehow extended it.
Did it stick? WHat’s going on right now really?
What did they do with their supersized unemployment checks?
I will agree with her when she adds non payment to IRS
I just put my electric and gas bills in the shredder.
Talib has never introduced a bill that has resulted in a law.
Her work in Congress is a joke. Her peers know that. It is true of the entire Squad.
Business as usual
Doing to America what Muslims have contributed to mankind for centuries
Teaching irresponsible behavior as a virtue never ends well
Those utility bills? She’s just gonna impeach the mofos.
Tlaib is a Palestinian Marxist psychopath. In the 1930’s, she’s be Hitler’s right hand woman in charge of concentration camps. She’s just as kill me and my family as pro-Israel Jews just as her Palestinian Grand Mufti loved to kill Jews in Europe (he helped raise two Moslem SS Divisions there) and the British Mandate of Palestine.
I heard a rumor that she’s the president of “Palestinian Psychos in the US”. She is “the enemy” of America, along with her fellow psychos in AOC’s “The SQUATS” (i.e. full of shit Marxists/racists lunatics).
Next up...assistance for those who don’t pay their mortgage, their garbage, their sewer, their Amazon account bill, their grocery bill, their car payments and their insurance payments.
Ain’t life grand? Why did I work for a living all those years?
how poor people live - if you are below a certain income threshhold, your water, electricity and gas are all subsized by about 1/3 through your local utility company. If you can’t pay a bill or three, there are specific charities that give cash grants (usually one-time).
If you are single or have children, there are food box programs that you can register for that hand out food boxes each month. In my era, there was Senior Gleaners and Meals on Wheels. There’s similar programs and many of them. If you have children in the home, you get AFDC which is for their food, clothing and towards a share of the utilities/rent.
Also if you have children living with you, you are eligible for free or something like $10/mo internet from a national carrier, so children can get on line to do their school work. Some households will even qualify for a computer, too.
In short, society already provides at least 1/3 of the cost of basic utilities for the poor. And in many urban areas, internet is also subsidized.
(I don’t know if obama phones are still active - anyone know?)
Is that how it works in the Gaza Strip? Because Gaza is such a success story!
I think she should get a free pass. One way, via Delta, or United, or any other airline, to that part of Bibical Israel, occupied by the Philistinians,
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