Right on Orange man!
This is bullcrap!!
$600 a week MAYBE made sense at the time, but it doesn’t now.
I can’t see going back to zero, however. There’s still 18 million people who are out of work who had jobs in February. They aren’t all just lazy.
LOL, gonna save a lot of money there!
I have a great incentive to get someone to go back to work - WORK or STARVE.
This whole thing was done completely bass ackwards to begin with. If there was to be a stimulus,( lets pretend the stimulus had to happen), the $1200 one time payment should have went to those that lost their job. The $600/week bonus should have been to those essential workers that still had to go out everyday and expose themselves to the virus. It should have been a combat pay style bonus. The unemployed were relatively safe from exposure due to staying at home. Why did they need extra money on top of unemployment benefits?
Now the supreme idiocy of the way it was handled has manifested itself in that people want another bonus to return to work, and yet again, those of us that troopered on and kept the economy alive get the royal screw job! EFF Steve Mnuchin and Eff Trump too!
How about just drop the $600 benefit? That should provide the only incentive people would need to get a job.
More like the employees are using their “safety concerns” as an excuse so that they can keep collecting their unemployment bonuses.
I hope they all $#!+ as brick when they find out they will have to pay taxes on their unemployment money come next April 15th!
That’s $2400 per month plus whatever other benefits you were entitled to under your state’s laws. Who would want to give up that gravy train unless it’s $2400 per month plus salary to go back to work? If you want people to go back to work, end, or greatly reduce, the extra unemployment money. No incentive-to-return money is needed.
Trump sees... as do many who understand psychology and economics... that the $600 on top of anything else you might get is disincentivizing work and also funding insurrection.
Back to work bonus is a good carrot, but theyll have to continue a lesser enhancement. 300 or so. Theres just not going to be that many jobs for a while.
Incentivizing finding work instead of incentivizing staying unemployed is a very good idea.
I don’t think it’s even the short-term top off that is making the greatest difference, as that’s only got 5 more weeks to go anyway. What it is is that anyone who took unemployment now can’t apply for it again until they have built up another few quarters of work credit. If they leave the certainty of 39-weeks minimal payments, with a good chance of that getting extended, they might go back to work for a few weeks, then get laid off again and be SOOL.
We simply can’t have a country where our marginal workers get bounced around like that. They’ll buy the globalist koolaid and help to tear it down.
Our Nephew worked part time doing Dog Training. He got laid off because of the Kung Flu.
He applied for Unemployment in CA. He started getting his “normal” Unemployment Benefit which wasn’t much.
One day he opens is Mailbox and inside is a Visa Debit Card with a $2,400 Balance. This kid couldn’t put $400 in the Bank if he tried. Now he’s flush with Cash thanks to Uncle Sugar.
Sorry folks, the America we knew where hard work, thrift and Patriotism was the norm is gone forever, Add Law and Order to the List while you’re at it. Now we have a Lawbreaker Class to deal with.
So smart!
DONALD Trump? What's the matter with PRESIDENT Trump, or are they following the liberal line?