Posted on 12/18/2020 10:03:13 AM PST by Onthebrink
GOP Sen. Ron Johnson (Wis.) on Friday blocked an effort to pass a second round of stimulus checks, arguing coronavirus relief needs to be targeted and raising concerns about the country's debt.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) tried to get consent, which requires the cooperation of every senator, to pass his bill that would provide $1,200 for individuals who make up to $75,000 — the exact same language that Congress passed as part of the CARES Act in March.
"What I'm proposing is what every senator has supported already, this year. ... What I'm proposing will give working folks in my state and across this country a shot ... at getting back up on their feet," Hawley said from the Senate floor.
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Zero reason to pay those business owners and their nonworking employees full boat while lots of freelance, multiple parttimer and other scrubs are below subsistence level with squat.
If this is an emergency bailout it should be by need and minimal.
Didn’t we, the middle class, just bailout the banks and Wall Street a few years ago? Seems to me that banks should be forced to reciprocate by forgiving all interest and suspending all payments in 2020-2021. Why should they be the only ones unaffected by adversity?
I would like to see every university endowment liquidated and paid out in checks to the American people.
The universities have gotten huge benefits from government insured loans—time to pay back the deplorables.
The universities want “equality”—let us give it to them!
BINGO! LOL!
I'm against it for two reasons, we don't have the money, and the artificial "cap" at $75,000. Why not 50k or 100k ? Where's the science/math involved in this number? It's like when they say they will tax the rich? Are the rich now at 75k? Ridiculous.
Many people are only reading the headline of this article and believing the source.
Short term spending bill, no problem, TALF no problem, MBS Bailout no problem, WMT CCP & Amazon(lockdowns) Bailout monopoly no problem....1200 to regular citizens BIG PROBLEM.
“Never let them control their own money.” “Always examine every penny they make” “kill the Tea Party” “Check where they are at all times”
I want it to end also. Thing is, I also want justice for the thousands of murdered Americans that China is directly responsible for killing. Boating accident?? This was no boating accident!! It is wholesale, premeditated murder of fellow Americans and I want the bastards in China to pay.(And pay and pay and pay...)
Lockdown. MAFIOSA:
CCP WMT and Amazon monopolize. CCP Bailed out. Mission accomplished.
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