Posted on 03/06/2021 9:45:22 AM PST by Beowulf9
WASHINGTON (AP) — An exhausted Senate narrowly approved a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill Saturday as President Joe Biden and his Democratic allies notched a victory they called crucial for hoisting the country out of the pandemic and economic doldrums.
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https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1319
Specifically, the bill provides funding for
agriculture and nutrition programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program); schools and institutions of higher education; child care and programs for older Americans and their families; COVID-19 vaccinations, testing, treatment, and prevention; mental health and substance-use disorder services; emergency rental assistance, homeowner assistance, and other housing programs; payments to state, local, tribal, and territorial governments for economic relief; multiemployer pension plans; small business assistance, including specific programs for restaurants and live venues; programs for health care workers, transportation workers, federal employees, veterans, and other targeted populations; international and humanitarian responses; tribal government services; and scientific research and development. The bill also includes provisions that
raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025; extend unemployment benefits and related services; provide a maximum recovery rebate of $1,400 per eligible individual; expand and otherwise modify certain tax credits, including the child tax credit and the earned income tax credit; provide premium assistance for certain health insurance coverage; and require coverage, without cost-sharing, of COVID-19 vaccines and treatment under Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
A ten dollar bill will now be worth ten cents; a twenty dollar bill worth twenty cents.
Only because we’re letting it happen.
Give an example how to stop it? Easy to say from your computer, how do you stop it specifically?
I thought the $15 “full robot employment” rate provision was killed?
It’s not a “virus relief bill.” It’s giving money only to certain people/organizations and to get the money inflated again. By inflating the currency the numbers will go up, fooling a massivly brain-dead public into thinking that things are improving.
1.9T Virus Make-America-Weak Bill.
Continues (increases?) the utterly unconstitutional mandatory taxpayers’ support for abortions - the bloody Satanic spirit remains over America.
Utterly unconstitutionally raises the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025 - direct business and job killer. Smart businesses will take flight overseas and the stupid and gullible will forget if they ever realized at all, that government caused this migration of business and will call these businesses the bad guys.
The Stupidity Domino Effect continues.
WHERE’S OUR DOUGH JOE?!
They are letting it happen.
A lot of politically connected people are going to get very rich as the country is destroyed. It’s like people are walking around in a daze, not seeing the world crashing down around them.
yep
Someone send a thank you note to Lin Wood.
lol. you’ll get crickets.
the last great idea the howlers had was boycotting the GA runoff. look what that got us. predictably, they’ll blame the “rinos”, even though killing two “rinos” was exactly how we got here.
Left...creates problems then makes us pay for them...
Doubt if this surprised anyone.
It looks like it wasn’t and it’s there, at least that’s what I got from the post.
Are you kidding? We can’t do ia god damn thing to stop them. When the government learned that not only can they vote whatever they want from the treasury, they could borrow unlimited amounts to spend, we lost any option for controlling it/them. Take what you can from them and fortify your own finances.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1319
They have it as having passed the House but not Senate yet. I’m sure they’ll update it but I wanted to read the most current version of it to see if those election laws/rules are in it.
If they are, stick a fork in us because we are done.
To update the words of the late Sen. Everett Dirksen:
“A trillion here, a trillion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money.”
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