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Rashida Tlaib wants to give a pass to people who don't pay water, electricity or internet bills
Fox News ^ | 08/05/2021 | Michael Ruiz

Posted on 08/05/2021 2:01:24 PM PDT by DFG

Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib is pushing for legislation that would let people who fail to pay their water, electricity or broadband bills off the hook.

"Cancel water, electricity and broadband debt," the Squad member tweeted Wednesday morning. "#StopTheShutoffs."

She changed her messaging Thursday afternoon – calling for a bailout instead of outright cancellation.

"No one should live without water and critical services," she tweeted Thursday. "Congress bailed out the banks in 2008 when it was their own wrongdoing. There should be NO hesitation in bailing out people who, due to no fault of their own, are experiencing the impacts of a pandemic. #StoptheShutOffs"

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KEYWORDS: electricity; tlaib; utility; water
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1 posted on 08/05/2021 2:01:24 PM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

Ok. Send the bill to her.


2 posted on 08/05/2021 2:02:50 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: DFG

Right, it will all be taken care of by the magic money machine in the Federal Reserve. Stuff like this is how we got to a $28 trillion deficit, much of it owed to China.


3 posted on 08/05/2021 2:05:05 PM PDT by FormerFRLurker
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To: DFG
due to no fault of their own

How is this determined? Total BS

4 posted on 08/05/2021 2:05:09 PM PDT by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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To: DFG

How will the people who supply these services live if their employer cannot pay them? There are usually assistance programs for poor people, but in this case it appears one could simply decide not to pay regardless of one’s income.


5 posted on 08/05/2021 2:05:34 PM PDT by packagingguy (Kit)
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To: DFG

This is ZERO concern for Fed.gov

Federalism and state/local rights need to be restored in a big way, urgently.


6 posted on 08/05/2021 2:08:31 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: DFG

It’s “Tlah-eeb”, not “Tah-leeb”...Anyway, we’re gonna dump the c***.


7 posted on 08/05/2021 2:08:33 PM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: DFG

And we are going to CANCEL ALL Government Pensions and Health Care to pay for it right?


8 posted on 08/05/2021 2:09:00 PM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: packagingguy

Everything is free.


9 posted on 08/05/2021 2:09:15 PM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: DFG

Biden & D’s are implementing socialism using COVID as a backdrop. Pay people to not work, so employers have to pay far higher than minimum wage - it sidesteps Congress and penalizes entrepreneurs in favor of overpaying the employees. Enable people to not pay rent - penalize landlords.

Now AOC wants more things for free. They’re going to destroy everything that made this country great. Why start a small business in such a climate? Do these idiots really think that it can be sustainable? It’s not about tearing down the USA and replace it with something else - they’re implementing everything they want anyway, all using COVID as an excuse.

...all why they don’t want the COVID fear to stop. None of it is Constitutional.


10 posted on 08/05/2021 2:10:20 PM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: DFG

Wasn’t free everything the beginning of Venezuela’s slide into hell?


11 posted on 08/05/2021 2:11:39 PM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: DFG

That’s the natural consequence of forcing owners to provide free rent. Who pays? Anybody who is actually working.


12 posted on 08/05/2021 2:13:32 PM PDT by I want the USA back (We have more to fear from our government than from the bug that the chicoms made for us. )
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To: DFG

Why stop there? Hell, give everybody a new Lexus, a house with a pool, and a private jet to boot.


13 posted on 08/05/2021 2:19:11 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: DFG

We have the smart grid, right? So how about 2 hours of electric a day? And roll the internet speed back to dial-up, so no porn, no movie streaming, and no social media.


14 posted on 08/05/2021 2:19:49 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: DFG

Then under the equal protection clause nobody has to pay their bills?


15 posted on 08/05/2021 2:23:55 PM PDT by EandH Dad (sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
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To: unixfox

Keep the Lexus. I’ll take Mustang GT 350. As long as the government pays the speeding tickets.


16 posted on 08/05/2021 2:25:30 PM PDT by EandH Dad (sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
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To: DFG

Does that mean we citizens can stop paying taxes? Sounds like a plan to me. 🙂


17 posted on 08/05/2021 2:33:45 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: fuzzylogic

Point completely valid but I just wonder how anybody can think like that


18 posted on 08/05/2021 2:45:30 PM PDT by genghis
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To: DFG

The squad seems to be in a contest to see who can make the stupidest policy statements.


19 posted on 08/05/2021 2:45:33 PM PDT by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti)
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To: unixfox

Why you helping the enemy?


20 posted on 08/05/2021 2:46:14 PM PDT by genghis
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