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For some of us that was a way of taking less. It was a refundable credit that was handed out before the end of the tax year. There seemed to be some people that didn't understand that and suggested that it was a reward from Trump for younger punching his fart box and didn't think those of us who didn't like him should get it. That's why his name was on it.
Or....gasp....here's a new idea.......how about they cut my tax rates by the same amount? And make it permanent?
The administrative cost of Congress bickering over a bill, passing it, the Prez signing it, then the IRS standing up a portal that crashed every 2 hours because their IT skills are still stuck in the 70s, getting a bunch of checks and direct deposits wrong and wasting a truckload of money needs to be paid somehow.
Yup, both the Trump helicopter money plans and eviction moratorium were terrible policies.
They make sense though given Trump. Basically all of his actions were about what would be popular which is why after calling it the liberal hoax he rushed to push through the welfare checks, nearly double the child welfare payments to $3,600 per child. We were a fiscal trainwreck leading in to COVID. Obama only did so much to fix th previous disaster spendthrift and Trump got in and tax cuts and big government pork are popular so he blew up the deficit even before going wild with the helicopters throwing out money and telling people they didn't need to pay rent anymore. Then you have Biden come in who maybe if you had a stronger Democrat they could slap the progressive Democrats in line more but we'll just have to make do with what there is which is rolling back some of Trump's disaster policies and getting back to merely being a fiscal trainwreck.
Yeah, we should have let millions die for the sake of your extreme ideology.
Millions died regardless. Just over a longer period of time.
And there's nothing "extreme" about NOT turning off the country over a virus with a 99.X% overall chance of survival, and significantly higher among the working-age population.
Because there should never have been lockdowns or restrictions of any kind whatsoever in the first place.
The stimulus was a solution to a problem of the government's own making.
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Yeah, we should have let millions die for the sake of your extreme ideology.
LOL. Sweden didn't lock down and to date has a 0.007 case fatality rate. In other words, a 99.3% survival rate, despite not locking down. They didn't destroy their economy and spur runaway inflation for that 0.7% fatality rate.
LOL. Sweden didn't lock down and to date has a 0.007 case fatality rate. In other words, a 99.3% survival rate, despite not locking down. They didn't destroy their economy and spur runaway inflation for that 0.7% fatality rate.
Proof positive that when given the choice between accepting things we can't change and wasting more money than God has ever seen trying to change them, Democrats will choose the latter any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
And evidently, NOT wasting taxpayer money is somehow an "extreme ideology."
LOL. Sweden didn't lock down and to date has a 0.007 case fatality rate. In other words, a 99.3% survival rate, despite not locking down. They didn't destroy their economy and spur runaway inflation for that 0.7% fatality rate.
What happens to the survival rate when hospitals are overflowing?
I remember when people scoffed at the idea that ‘Covid Relief’ spending would lead to tremendous inflation. I wonder if they still feel that way?
Yep. People were arrogant and condescending about this even though every Econ 101 textbook says if you grow money supply faster than GDP grows it adds an inflationary pressure.
What happens to the survival rate when hospitals are overflowing?
Hospitals overflowed regardless.
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