Posted on 04/15/2020 1:51:52 PM PDT by blam
Old enough to drive a car? Then you would be old enough to receive $2,000 a month under a plan introduced this week by two Democratic lawmakers in the House of Representatives.
Under the Emergency Money for the People Act, US citizens who are 16 or older — and make less than $130,000 a year — would receive cash payments from the federal government for at least six months and until unemployment falls to pre-pandemic levels.
The bill was introduced Tuesday by Rep. Tim Ryan, a former presidential candidate associated with the moderate wing of the Democratic Party, and Rep. Ro Khanna, the former cochair of Sen. Bernie Sanders' recently suspended campaign for president. It has 17 other cosponsors, all Democrats, including Rep. Barbara Lee, who helps lead the House Steering and Policy Committee.
In addition to the $2,000 payments to adults, qualifying families would receive $500 a child, with the money deliverable via direct deposit, check, or mobile apps such as Venmo.
"As millions of Americans file for unemployment week over week, we have to work quickly to patch the dam — and that means putting cash in the hands of hard-working families," Ryan said in a press release.
—Congressman Tim Ryan (@RepTimRyan) April 14, 2020
The bill comes as the IRS is about to begin mailing out checks approved by the recent COVID-19 relief package.
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How many trillions is this going to cost?
OFFS! Series? Nice try nanzi. If they can give it, they can take it.
Who gets to pay for it? The young generations?
Another month of this and “hard working” families ain’t gonna have no work to go back to - small businesses will be dead.
None.....
It’s a scam, political one up’s manship
Complete BS! We have to open the economy NOW! We are adults and don’t need to be treated like 5 year olds by our supposed betters. Putting everyone on the government dole is the wet dream of communist everywhere. This must end before it is too late.
Remember us Demonuts come election time but ignore the national debt that’s Trump’s fault ,D’oh
Ditto and Amen.
No, do not want it... Stop trying to bribe for votes, Nancy.
I was hoping this would end without resorting to civil disobedience to force the faux-king governors to give up their vast new self-anointed powers and restore liberty. Now I’m concerned this may need to go beyond civil disobedience as it is becoming clearer each day that despite data that show the Chinese Flu virus is waning, these state tyrants are doubling down with their edicts, commands and demands and have absolutely no intention of restoring liberty any time soon.
Complete BS on so many levels. An outrages pander they know cannot be done.
How is “economy recovers” defined?
I guess that’s the whole point of this. I said earlier in a post somewhere on here that I believe that this is a demolition of the US, its economy and the constitution. The more people are off work, the more businesses it destroys and high unemployment in Nov gives them (dims) ammunition against reelecting president Trump. We know that this wasn’t Trumps fault but inner city people that are basically told or expected to vote for dims will only remember the last thing that they heard on the TV before leaving the house.
First thing you know, it will be extended to non-citizens. And it sounds like it would go even to incarcerated citizens, retired citizens, stay-at-home citizens, full-time students, and all sort of people who are NOT being financially impacted by the current financial environment. And where will this money come from?
Trying to use a crisis to edge in Universal Basic Income.
I’ll be over here trying to edge out of taxable economy.
I’ll tolerate means/needs-based welfare. I’ll not tolerate compelled redistribution of my income to everyone.
Seems a lot of UBI advocates see this crisis as opportunity. Once it starts, it won’t end.
“”How many trillions is this going to cost?””
No problem....Let’s make every democrat sign an IOU to repay every penny of it to the treasury - lawmakers, voters, I don’t care who - EVERY DEMOCRAT!!
“..associated with the moderate wing of the Democratic Party,”
Fake news right there
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