Posted on 01/02/2021 9:16:25 AM PST by RandFan
Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) pushed back Friday on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) characterization of $2,000 coronavirus relief payments to Americans as “socialism for the rich.”
“With all due respect to my Republican colleagues, a $2k direct payment for individuals and families who are struggling is not socialism,” Graham tweeted. “In my view it is necessary in the times in which we live.”
Last month, congressional leaders reached a long-sought deal on a new coronavirus package that included $600 checks for taxpayers, though both Democrats and President Trump have called for the amount to be increased to $2,000.
The House has passed a stand-alone bill increasing the payments, but McConnell has signaled it is going nowhere in the Senate.
"We do not need to let the Speaker of the House do socialism for rich people in order to help those who need help," McConnell said Thursday after blocking the measure for the third consecutive days.
McConnell has introduced a proposal that would tie the larger checks to tech and electoral provisions also supported by Trump, but the measure is unlikely to reach the floor before the Senate’s session ends Sunday
It isn’t a rebate. If it was I would be getting a huge one and most people wouldn’t be getting squat. We’re already paying way too much for these redistribution payments...
Easy on the name calling FRiend.
You may need to adjust your deductions. And trust me, I pay a TON of taxes myself.
This “free” money they are giving back to us as you say, are future tax burdens that will be passed on to our children and children’s children.
+1.
Excellent clarity and simple logic.
"We the People" gave the money to the damn Government initially.
WHO better to give it back to than, us, the original DONATORS.
You know, Ebeneezer Scrooge had the same worldview that you do, but then some ghosts visited him and he became a better human being.
It is a refund for decades of bad service.
Globalists are always eager to hand cash taken from American taxpayers to foreigners.
So they tax you so that they can give some of it back to you as a refund? We would all like to get in on that racket.
Again with the Scrooge stuff. If you expect me to feel guilty for objecting to my tax dollars being spent on welfare, you are on the wrong site. We’re conservatives here, or at least we used to be. Democratic Underground may be more your speed.
Thanks for the info on the quote.
Freegards
With Graham, it’s always theater.
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