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Antifar 03/16/20 11:53:51 AM #1: |
https://twitter.com/jmartNYT/status/1239578864822767617?s=20
This is the sort of situation in which a UBI would be very helpful --- kin to all that throbs ... Copied to Clipboard!
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CruelBuffalo 03/16/20 11:54:35 AM #2: |
#YangGangLight
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Pseudomenon 03/16/20 11:54:39 AM #3: |
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ElatedVenusaur 03/16/20 11:54:40 AM #4: |
Can't wait for them to do some lame tax credit instead and for Pelosi to really spike the football over it.
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cmiller4642 03/16/20 11:54:54 AM #5: |
Mitch McConnell demands $1,000,000,000 in tax breaks for the wealthiest 20 Americans in retaliation.
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Cheater87 03/16/20 11:56:19 AM #6: |
What? That is something the GOP is against.
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Bestoffuture 03/16/20 11:57:01 AM #7: |
TulsiGang
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DevsBro 03/16/20 11:57:14 AM #8: |
$1000 for what?
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Garioshi 03/16/20 11:57:34 AM #9: |
Yang gang creaming their pants rn
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Squall28 03/16/20 11:59:28 AM #11: |
DevsBro posted...
$1000 for what? Toilet paper --- If you're going through hell, keep going. -Winston Churchill ... Copied to Clipboard!
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cmiller4642 03/16/20 11:59:34 AM #12: |
RoadsterUFO posted...
I understand the want in helping everyone during this time period, but I do not see how this would not make things worse if we were to print more money out of thin air in order to implement this. Helping regular people buy groceries and pay rent= bad Putting 1 trillion dollars in the stock market only for it to drop another 3,000 points= good ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Questionmarktarius 03/16/20 11:59:37 AM #13: |
DevsBro posted...
$1000 for what?If pretty much everything is shut down but delivery services, this is essentially just handing $3 trillion to Amazon and Pizza Hut. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Keith_Valentine 03/16/20 12:03:11 PM #18: |
Antifar posted...
https://twitter.com/jmartNYT/status/1239578864822767617?s=20 Universal basic income aka give money to losers for no reason. Great stimulant there, take from workers and give it to slackers. No wonder Mitt got destroyed every election, hes such a fake bitch. Remember a few weeks ago when he voted against Trump in the impeachment hearing and started crying? What a man. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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karlpilkington4 03/16/20 12:04:21 PM #19: |
I thought all Mike Bloomberg had to do was give away 300 million to us. We'd all be millionaires.
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cmiller4642 03/16/20 12:04:38 PM #20: |
Keith_Valentine posted...
Universal basic income aka give money to losers for no reason. Great stimulant there, take from workers and give it to slackers. Remember Thursday when Trump ordered the Fed to piss 1 trillion dollars away into the stock market to make himself look good temorarily? Or remember all the times in the past 7 or so weeks he's called COVID-19 a great big fake news liberal hoax meant to derail his presidency? ... Copied to Clipboard!
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hockeybub89 03/16/20 12:04:47 PM #21: |
We're going to be so fucked as a species when robots take like half the jobs and no one wants to pay anyone simply for living.
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MarqueeSeries 03/16/20 12:05:48 PM #22: |
Questionmarktarius posted...
DevsBro posted...$1000 for what?If pretty much everything is shut down but delivery services, this is essentially just handing $3 trillion to Amazon and Pizza Hut. Are rent, water, electric/gas, and insurance all being suspended during this trying time or something? --- A hunter is a hunter...even in a dream ... Copied to Clipboard!
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pauIie 03/16/20 12:08:01 PM #23: |
DevsBro posted...
$1000 for what?anime figurines --- ... Copied to Clipboard!
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supercurrymax 03/16/20 12:08:35 PM #24: |
350 billion
HOW WOULD WE PAY FOR IT. It's not like its 1.5 trillion that was easily paid for to prop up the stock market for 30 minutes. --- i like chicken. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Questionmarktarius 03/16/20 12:08:54 PM #25: |
MarqueeSeries posted...
Are rent, water, electric/gas, and insurance all being suspended during this trying time or something?Alright, Amazon, Pizza Hut, and all those evil landlords in that other thread going on right now. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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SquantoZ 03/16/20 12:10:07 PM #26: |
Yang is rolling over in his grave.
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Tired-Insomniac 03/16/20 12:19:43 PM #27: |
Posted this in the other topic:
US population is roughly 330,000,000 people Assuming every single person would get a $1000 check, that's only $330,000,000,000 They pumped $1,500,000,000,000 into the stock market last week only for it to crash and burn anyway They could have given every single American a check for ~$4500 instead --- "I like turtles" ... Copied to Clipboard!
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VTBM 03/16/20 12:21:03 PM #29: |
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Questionmarktarius 03/16/20 12:21:05 PM #30: |
Tired-Insomniac posted...
Assuming every single person would get a $1000 check, that's only $330,000,000,000Oh damn, I bad-math'd that pretty badly in #13. oops. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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CharlesBronson 03/16/20 12:21:05 PM #31: |
fuck mitt romney
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MarqueeSeries 03/16/20 12:22:05 PM #32: |
Tired-Insomniac posted...
Posted this in the other topic: Yeah but that would require a government that isn't essentially just a big clown car --- A hunter is a hunter...even in a dream ... Copied to Clipboard!
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E32005 03/16/20 12:22:16 PM #33: |
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Solid Snake07 03/16/20 12:23:58 PM #34: |
A one time stimulus to get through a short term emergency is pretty different than paying everyone more money out every month than the IRS takes in
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TheRealDill2016 03/16/20 12:25:14 PM #35: |
cmiller4642 posted...
Mitch McConnell demands $1,000,000,000 in tax breaks for the wealthiest 20 Americans in retaliation. This has to be a joke. My senator cares about his people. He's not a complete corporate sellout. --- Proud supporter of the GEOTUS ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Questionmarktarius 03/16/20 12:26:18 PM #36: |
Solid Snake07 posted...
A one time stimulus to get through a short term emergency is pretty different than paying everyone more money out every month than the IRS takes inAt current revenues, every adult could get a check each month, and there'd still be about $800 billion for whatever. This assumes, of course, revenues remain the same afterwords. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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CharlesBronson 03/16/20 12:26:56 PM #37: |
Tired-Insomniac posted...
Posted this in the other topic: Unreal. You give eveyone $4500 you end up with empty shelves. Giving everyone $4500 doesn't increase production capacity of scarce resources. Next time pick up an economics textbook before bloviating about economics, thank you. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Bio1590 03/16/20 12:30:05 PM #38: |
I mean the government has to figure out something here considering they're partly to blame for why so many people are in such dire straits financially in the first place.
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Tired-Insomniac 03/16/20 12:30:32 PM #39: |
@CharlesBronson posted...
Unreal. You give eveyone $4500 you end up with empty shelves. Giving everyone $4500 doesn't increase production capacity of scarce resources. Next time pick up an economics textbook before bloviating about economics, thank you. Please point out precisely where I said they should give everyone $4500 instead of $1000 --- "I like turtles" ... Copied to Clipboard!
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BlackJackCat 03/16/20 12:30:40 PM #40: |
A mitt is something you stick your hand in. Mitt Romney is named after something people stick their hands in. Why does he have a wife?
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hockeybub89 03/16/20 12:44:36 PM #41: |
I'm sure all these angry people would storm DC and rip up their checks on the stairs of the Capitol
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Bestoffuture 03/16/20 12:54:22 PM #43: |
Bio1590 posted...
I mean the government has to figure out something here considering they're partly to blame for why so many people are in such dire straits financially in the first place. Boot straps. Lazy. Some bullshit like that --- Proud leader of the PeyPals ... Copied to Clipboard!
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SwordMaster13X 03/16/20 12:58:20 PM #44: |
Tired-Insomniac posted...
Posted this in the other topic: It would be less than that since children are not adults unless they give people with kids and dependents more? --- Ask me about my community board https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/1072-the-underground-garden ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Tired-Insomniac 03/16/20 1:30:30 PM #45: |
SwordMaster13X posted...
It would be less than that since children are not adults unless they give people with kids and dependents more? Yeah if it's just adults then it's probably closer to like 200 billion. --- "I like turtles" ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Bishop9800 03/16/20 1:34:29 PM #46: |
TheRealDill2016 posted...
This has to be a joke. My senator cares about his people. He's not a complete corporate sellout. Dude, just stop. Please. --- There are enough attention whores on CE as it is. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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