Could A ‘Drafting Error’ In The Coronavirus Bill Sink America’s Economic Recovery Before It Even Starts?

Townhall.com ^ | March 30, 2020 | Scott Morefield

[Svartalfiar]

Right or wrong, the government is essentially forcing businesses to close and people to be out of work in order to fight the spread of coronavirus, and thus any shred of morality on the part of said government officials would dictate that the government has a responsibility to at least help care for those out of work folks until the crisis has passed, even if that means borrowing trillions to do so.

Close but no cigar there, Scott. Why is the FedGov responsible for paying millions of dollars for all these Mayors and Governors shutting their people down? Why shouldn't they be responsible for the $$$?

[Svartalfiar]

This is a dumb article, eliciting dumb posting responses.

an extra 600 bucks for four weeks ? Give me a break.

chump change

And here's one of them. It doesn't matter if it's chump change or equal to the entire yearly budget, NOTHING grants FedGov the powers to spend this money. I don't care if they gave everybody $1, that's still $1 more than they should be doing.

[Svartalfiar]

We keep saying this over and over at our house...

FOUR MONTHS

You could survive many things by seeing the light at the end of...…..

It’s temporary.

For now. But now what Republican can run on being a fiscal conservative? Massie is the ONLY ONE who went against this. Not a peep from anyone else. How can most of these CongressCritters argue they're any different than the Dems? Oh yea, we stopped Pelosi's $3T bill, hooray! We cut all her pork in half, so she still got 50% of what she wanted, whereas conservatives got infinity times more than they wanted on that crap...

[Alberta's Child]

My prediction is that this will not cause much harm at all. I say this mainly because I believe most of those low-wage jobs lost in this fiasco are never coming back anyway. I hate to any businesses close, but some sectors of our economy were very unstable to begin with. Restaurants, for example, are notoriously marginal — often even in GOOD times.

[Alberta's Child]

Massie made it clear when he launched his “crusade” that he had every intention of voting FOR the bill.

[CodeToad]

“I believe most of those low-wage jobs lost in this fiasco are never coming back anyway.”

I think so, too, but there are lots of jobs left and we’re seeing people ditch them for unemployment insurance.

[Alberta's Child]

I don’t know of any jurisdiction where someone can collect unemployment after leaving a job on their own.

[xrmusn]

He should NOT have signed it, he should have redlined everything in it that was NOT virus related and held it up for the cameras to see.
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I want(ed) him to go one better than that...

READ THE ENTIRE Bill, to the public, no grimaces, no theatrics (would be ‘hard’), just word for word, let it sink in then go back and point out what WILL come out return it and give them a few hours.

PDJT has to let the PUBLIC know what these ‘so called’ representatives are doing to US.

Wouldn’t be a bad idea to name who is FOR THE PUBLIC and who isn’t.

They told us to stay home so take advantage of the ‘audience at ‘gun point’’....<: <: <:

[Cottonpatch]

Amen,..President Trump should not have signed it.. Never that kind of pork..

[aimhigh]

Rarely do you have a control group to prove that true or false.

I worked for decades at the unemployment office. This is true, even without the extra $600 per week.

[CodeToad]

“I don’t know of any jurisdiction where someone can collect unemployment after leaving a job on their own.”

It’s what we were talking about upthread. The new law seems to allow people to leave their job due to the corona virus. It’s a bit vague, but I do know people are quoting it in the real world right now.

[Alberta's Child]

In the case of a Federal law with vague language like that, I can only presume that state laws will dictate eligibility to collect unemployment. The U.S. Dept. of Labor almost certainly doesn't have the resources to review unemployment claims on a case-by-case basis.

This kind of makes me more convinced that the intent of this provision is to provide that "unemployment incentive" for millions of people who are NEVER getting their old jobs back.

[vpintheak]

This is why many FReepers need to quit looking at Trump like he is a god, and pull your head out of your third point of contact.
This is total and complete horse crap. Trump has allowed the nanny-staters and drama queens too much pull.

[yoe]

[Plain Old American]

Fed min wage is $7.25/hr. A work week for a full time employee is 40 hours. This works out to be $290.

Unemployment is not 100% of the previous wage. But add the $600 help to the wage and you have $890.00. Divide by the 40 hours for the work week and you get $22.25/hr.

The Dems will never again try to get a $15 minimum wage, they will loudly protest Republican attempts to reduce the established minimum....