Democrats are rallying behind a plan to give some Americans monthly $2,000 relief checks during the coronavirus crisis, The Hill reports.
If Republicans don’t agree, they will be the bad guys in November, if they do do it, they will probably cause irreparable harm to the economy.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) endorsed the monthly relief checks. It will likely be part of the multi-trillion-dollar relief package we can expect to see shortly.
WE OWE PEOPLE THE BORROWED MONEY
“The government has told people we need to shelter in place to keep safe. So it’s the government’s obligation to provide for basic expenses while we’re telling people not to work. It’s really that simple,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), a very far-left progressive leader who has authored legislation calling for more relief checks, told The Hill.
“We need $2,000 a month for families struggling to pay the bills,” he added.
Communista Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and communistic Progressive Caucus Co-Chair Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), have teamed up on the ABC Act that would give every American $2,000 a month for the duration of the crisis, and $1,000 a month for an entire year after the crisis ends.
After it ends!
Similar legislation offered by Khanna, who was co-chairman of communist Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) presidential campaign, and Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), would be based on means-testing. The Emergency Money for the People Act would give a $2,000 monthly payment to individuals making less than $130,000 a year, or $4,000 a month for couples making less than $260,000 annually.
This would be some enormous redistribution of wealth. It’s far more than a socialist would do. It’s communism.
On Friday, Sens. Sanders, Ed Markey(D-Mass.) and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), a leading contender to be Joe Biden’s running mate, rolled out a plan of their own, the Monthly Economic Crisis Support Act. It would send monthly $2,000 checks to Americans who make less than $120,000 a year, up until three months after the pandemic ends. Married couples would receive $4,000, plus another $2,000 for each child.
“Bills come in every single month during the pandemic and so should help from our government,” Harris tweeted.
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Wow! Great comments. The only thing I can add to this article is…the picture of Nanzi with the article is really not doing her any favors.
If she had more surgery since the dims went on semi-permanent vacay, she needs to get a refund.
Just sayin’.
Just print more money. Printing more money during a crisis (real or not) is one of the few times it’s not going cause the problems the ones who have the highest levels of fear about economic collapse propose. The economy is a psychology engine. Debt is an illusion for the most part. Search the details on this yourself. I know. You think I’m crazy. I’m a troll. An idiot. Whatever. You can get 100 “economists” who will say this is a great idea and another 100 “economists” that will say otherwise. Has this been A/B tested? Kinda. But not fully. I’ve built/sold several businesses from the ground up with very little help and at times it was a serious struggle. I struggled to have enough to eat working two jobs through college after my father was killed in a car accident. How many people like me who hustle would still be motivated to build businesses that create jobs if they had a little help coming in form Uncle Sam? I know exactly what most of you are going to say already. Everyone will loose all their ambition to work and create, spend this money on booze and lottery tickets and live the shit life. Right? But do know that for certain? Can give a percentage? 80%?. 50%? 10%? Maybe such a small percentage it hardly makes a dent in the system. Welfare fraud exists but the system still functions adequately and errors will always have to be fixed/adjusted and the few that take advantage dealt with. Just like in real life for every system in society. A perfect system is impossible. Smug certitude in any arena or idea (such as UBI) when not even seasoned experts can agree (along with constantly changing data points) is just plain idiotic. No “expert” or anybody else for that matter has ever predicted the future. They said Social Security would be the end of America decades ago. And here we are. Let’s do a test run. What the hell? How many years of life do you have left? Do you feel lucky? Stop whining and let the experiment that is America continue to evolve. The concept of work and “making a living” has and will continue to change. It can be done incrementally and with caution. I’ve a Trump supporter by the way and believe in the basic precepts of capitalism. I think the Democratic Party (along with their MSM helpers) is the most evil and corrupt institution on the planet. Trump started with $200 million from his dad. I started with NOTHING. ZERO. Some are luckier than others and dealt a great hand. Some are f#cked at birth. America is a Capitalist-Socialist Hybrid for the most part (it’s more complicated than that of course). Many of today’s more capitalistic economies quite simply are not sustainable as proven over the years from bailouts. Humans are a sad lot with a built in irrational exuberance about their futures and simultaneously genetically predisposed to negative bias. But somehow society moves on.
All of the Commies are revealing themselves counting on suffering Americans to accept being slaves
These people are psychopaths. The ONLY thing they care about is power. They care not one whit about you or I or NEone else other than themselves; yet dress up their pretension & deceit under the cloak of ‘compassion’. The liars! Remember: Satan comes as an angel of light!
Yea Nancy don’t mind driving the country deeper in debt. She has her millions of dollars to fall back on while we don’t have money to fall back on. We already own China to much money as it is. Nancy needs to do something constructed not destructed. Dumb ass Socialist /Democrat.