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I believe he said by April: the end of April is 6 weeks away: none or us know what the situation will be like in 6 weeks. Let's all hope he is close to right: maybe not on target but at least the worse is over by then.
Your mixing his lies/fairy tales, hunches. Yesterday had no date, thoiugh I suppose he is right. Eventually it will end. We should just ignore him. He knows nothing about it and is not interested in educating the public - just trying to keep the markets up and tourism going.
The virus is not killing all that many people. Only 3000 died in Hubei out of 60 million. The damage is not the deaths, it is the quarantines. But quarantines are necessary to stop it. Trump should bite the bullet and do what Italy is doing - shut down the whole country, make most people stay home for 2 weeks. Essential workers obviously have to go to work. That will stop the spread and it will go away. The economy will quickly recover after that. Give every tax payer $500.
We don't know the death toll at this point. This is just the start and has an exponential growth. I'd rather listen to people who are in the know, and those would not include most people connected to this administration.
I believe he said by April: the end of April is 6 weeks away: none or us know what the situation will be like in 6 weeks. Let's all hope he is close to right: maybe not on target but at least the worse is over by then.
Only thing certain, it will eventually burn out. It is also possible, it will re-emerge down the road.
Once there is a vaccination, herd immunity will eventually occur, dependent on the number who choose to become vaccinated.
The worst will not be over by then. This is just beginning. Not to mention the financial and economic impacts.
A six week run in the US would be shorter than anywhere so far. Considering we are doing less than just about any country to control it, one would think it will be massively dispersed by the end of April. We'll see.
Unfortunately, there is no vaccine on the horizon and it will take a huge toll, if the experts I'm listening to are right. I have no reason to not believe them, especially given their backgrounds.
That is the scariest part of all this. It could take a year or so we are hearing to come up with one that really works.
Wrong. The tax is a universal payroll tax and has no bias.
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b) undermines the financial well-being of Social Security and Medicare.
Wrong. The tax affects FICA and not the HI (Medicare) payroll tax.
You didn't have a problem when Obama did it, and like Trump, Obama's temporary suspension had no effect on Medicare.
I would be more impressed if you could think for yourself instead of relying on the heavily slanted reporting by the morons at commondreams.whackos.
If you want to attack the temporary FICA payroll tax deduction then attack the fact that people might not be spending because of the Media panic over the corona virus and that more money isn't going to make people spend more money, but getting the Media to stop inducing panic might get people to spend money.
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I didn't realize this "cut" is actually a cut to the SS programs?
Wrong.
No one's Social Security benefits are being reduced or cut.
That website will help you with reading comprehension so you don't make mistakes in the future.
After you improve your reading comprehension, you can read the parts in the US Constitution and the Social Security Act of 1935 and 1939 Amendments that says Presidents can't do jack diddly squat about Social Security, and that only Congress has the power and authority to reduce benefits.
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