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Bill that would pay most Americans $2,000 monthly amid pandemic gains traction
KRON News4 ^ | May 8, 2020 | Alexa Mae Asperin

Posted on 05/08/2020 1:59:34 PM PDT by buckalfa

Edited on 05/08/2020 2:54:40 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON)

(Excerpt) Read more at kron4.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: covid19; excerpt; freestuff; helicoptermoney; socialism; ubi
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To: buckalfa

Most Americans would vote for this because most Americans don’t work and could care less where or how the money gets to them.


81 posted on 05/08/2020 2:43:01 PM PDT by JonPreston
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To: buckalfa

Democrat leaders must have loaded up on gold futures.


82 posted on 05/08/2020 2:43:53 PM PDT by Pelham (Mary McCord, Sally Yates and Michael Atkinson all belong in prison.)
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To: buckalfa

Are there any adults on the Democrat side of Congress or do they all believe in a magic tree that that grows money leaves for them to use to purchase votes?


83 posted on 05/08/2020 2:45:27 PM PDT by chuckee
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To: CharlesWayneCT

Before you go the distance and become convinced that it has merit, consider the following questions.

1. How long will $15k be worth $15k?

2. Where will the money come from?


84 posted on 05/08/2020 2:45:36 PM PDT by Susquehanna Patriot
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To: buckalfa

We will be like Venezuela and Zimbabwe in 3..2..1...


85 posted on 05/08/2020 2:45:43 PM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Milton Friedman had that idea. Called it the negative income tax.


86 posted on 05/08/2020 2:46:33 PM PDT by Fledermaus (ONLY A MORON THINKS 6 FEET IS A MAGIC NUMBER!)
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To: buckalfa

They just need their pandemic toe in the door. And this will never go away. Ever.

I truly despise them


87 posted on 05/08/2020 2:46:34 PM PDT by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON.)
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To: ealgeone
For 24K....hard to run a household on that. That's $11.53 per hour based on 2080 hrs per year. That's less than the $15.00 per hour minimum wage they want.

Liberal calculator:


88 posted on 05/08/2020 2:47:55 PM PDT by maddog55
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To: madprof98

If they would agree to deport every single illegal alien & MoBros I would go for it.
Would be cheaper


89 posted on 05/08/2020 2:48:48 PM PDT by magna carta
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To: buckalfa

NO kidding.

I’m one of those idiots who works long hours at a stressful job so my wife can stay home and raise kids, but even if that income number is doubled for married couples I wont get an effing dime.

But I may just eventually throw my hands up and go on the welfare gravy train. Or ask for a pay cut so I can qualify, work less, take home more. What could possibly go wrong.


90 posted on 05/08/2020 2:49:35 PM PDT by Manuel OKelley
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To: buckalfa

A perfect way for the lazy to stay home indefinitely.

Exactly what the commie/socialist democRATS love.


91 posted on 05/08/2020 2:49:44 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: buckalfa

Here’s the thing:
You can sit at home with your welfare check but, that is the limit of the supplicancy your Givernment can give you.

You can never outrun inflation, which will take off like a dragster running 300mph down a race track next year.

On the other hand, you can get off your butt and make a life for yourself and your family. You know, your children and grandchildren.

You can create opportunities, Your Patron Givernment never will.

You can create income that outruns inflation, your Patron Givernment who demands your Abeyance and Fealty as a Supplicant never will.

You can outsell inflation, the thieving Givernment can only take so much and even then you can out sell them.

Get Back to Work or become a state proletariat who is supplied only with your needs and occasionally according to your works...


92 posted on 05/08/2020 2:53:23 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: rarestia

If the government prints the (fiat) money to guarantee 15K/yr, how long do you think they will be able to survive on the 15K? Too many $$$ chasing too few products and services creates inflation (?).


93 posted on 05/08/2020 2:56:24 PM PDT by Susquehanna Patriot
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To: buckalfa

The democrats have discovered how to turn fairy dust to gold dust?


94 posted on 05/08/2020 2:57:16 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Chauncey Gardiner

” It will never stop.”

Yes it will.

The laws of economics, like the law of gravity, will stop it. And it won’t be a very nice ending.


95 posted on 05/08/2020 2:59:30 PM PDT by Susquehanna Patriot
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To: ealgeone

Their opening offer was more extreme in that it paid $2k a month for all Americans down to age 16.


96 posted on 05/08/2020 2:59:48 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: metmom

Mom: $2,000
Dad: $2,000
Child 1: $2,000
Child 2: $2,000
Total: $8,000


97 posted on 05/08/2020 3:00:07 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: buckalfa

Actually I think we’re most of the way to fulfilling this plan already. Was doing a service call today at a home where the primary bread winner had lost their job due to the covid-19 silliness. She announced that its hard to think about going back to work when the dole ‘pays’ better. She gets a dole check plus food assistance plus housing. Guess she didn’t understand working stiffs like myself afford her this happy existence. It didn’t go over well with myself or coworkers.


98 posted on 05/08/2020 3:01:02 PM PDT by 556x45
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To: CharlesWayneCT

With all due respect Charles, surely you had to learn something from the girlfriend on how to make your paycheck work (better).


99 posted on 05/08/2020 3:06:16 PM PDT by Susquehanna Patriot
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To: American in Israel

$30 for the hot dog, $10 for the bun.


100 posted on 05/08/2020 3:06:27 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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