Krystal Ball implores AOC to KILL corporate robbery bill
Here we go again. The average American getting the shaft. The United States of serfs and lords.
BLUEXITA Modest Proposal For Separating Blue States From Red
Dear Red-State Trump Voter,
Let’s face it, guys: We’re done.
It is a tragedy that so much of the work that so many men and women toiled at for so long to make this a better country, and a better world, has been thrown away, leaving us all in such needless peril.
This is why our separation in all but name is necessary.
https://newrepublic.com/article/1409...mp-red-america
Earl (03-27-2020)
How the coronavirus stimulus bill helps you
This is where it's at right now..........................
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Updated 12 hours ago - Politics & Policy
Congress' $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package is the rare legislative agreement that will have an immediate — and lasting — impact on ordinary citizens across the country.
Why it matters: The 883-page bill, titled the "CARES Act," includes thousands of dollars in direct payments to most Americans, and huge loan packages designed to help keep small businesses and corporations afloat.
Here's what's in the bill:
Direct payments: Americans will receive a one-time direct deposit of up to $1,200, and married couples will get $2,400, plus an additional $500 per child. The payments will be available for incomes up to $75,000 for individuals and $150,000 for married couples. This is true even for those who have no income, as well as those whose income comes entirely from non-taxable, means-tested benefit programs, such as Social Security.
Use of retirement funds: The bill waives the 10% early withdrawal penalty for distributions up to $100,000 for coronavirus-related purposes, retroactive to Jan. 1.
Small businesses: $350 billion is being dedicated to prevent layoffs and business closures while workers have to stay home during the outbreak. Companies with 500 employees or fewer that maintain their payroll during coronavirus can receive up to 8 weeks of cash-flow assistance. If employers maintain payroll, the portion of the loans used for covered payroll costs, interest on mortgage obligations, rent, and utilities would be forgiven.
The unemployed: The program's $250 billion extended unemployment insurance program — "unemployment on steroids," as Sen. Chuck Schumer calls it — expands eligibility and offers workers an additional $600 per week for four months, on top of what state programs pay. It also extends UI benefits through Dec. 31 for eligible workers. The deal applies to the self-employed, independent contractors and gig economy workers.
Hospitals and health care: The deal provides over $140 billion in appropriations to support the U.S. health system, $100 billion of which will be injected directly into hospitals. The rest will be dedicated to providing personal and protective equipment for health care workers, testing supplies, increased workforce and training, accelerated Medicare payments, and supporting the CDC, among other health investments.
Coronavirus testing: All testing and potential vaccines for COVID-19 will be covered at no cost to patients.
Large corporations: $500 billion will be allotted to provide loans, loan guarantees, and other investments, overseen by a Treasury Department inspector general. These loans will not exceed five years and cannot be forgiven.
Airlines will receive $50 billion (of the $500 billion) for passenger air carriers, and $8 billion for cargo air carriers.
Payroll taxes: The measure allows individuals to delay the payment of their 2020 payroll taxes until 2021 and 2022.
States and local governments will get $150 billion, with $8 billion set aside for tribal governments.
Agriculture: The deal would increase the amount the Agriculture Department can spend on its bailout program from $30 billion to $50 billion, according to a press release issued by Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.)
The timing: The Senate passed the bill late Wednesday night.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer says the House plans to vote on the package via a voice vote on Friday. This gives members who wish to debate the bill in person the option to do so, while also enabling those unable to return to Washington during coronavirus an option to stay in their home districts.
Go deeper:
Read the 883-page bill. https://www.documentcloud.org/docume...INAL-TEXT.html
Read summaries of the bill's
tax, https://gop-waysandmeans.house.gov/t...ares-bill-tax/
unemployment, https://gop-waysandmeans.house.gov/t...-unemployment/
small business, https://gop-waysandmeans.house.gov/t...mall-business/
health https://gop-waysandmeans.house.gov/t...s-bill-health/
and "distressed" industries policies. https://gop-waysandmeans.house.gov/t...s-livelihoods/
Senate passes the stimulus package
Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect the latest details.
https://www.axios.com/whats-in-coron...59a4dd5b0.html
Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
pain in abortion.
Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
which has begun. To abort life is to end it.
Earl (03-27-2020), PostmodernProphet (03-26-2020), TOP (03-27-2020)
Your mother, It extends unemployment benefits, pays some more than they make now helps small businesses, and heaven forbid corporations who employ people get any help, why don't you crawl back up daddies leg, you aren't ready to talk like that and back it up!
But wait lets make airlines have higher fuel standards and give unions bigger collective barganing ability and lets make sure Pelosi's husband gets help with his solar, and wind investments, lets make sure the house gets a raise for wasting the people time on impeachment!
Earl (03-27-2020)
AOC will bring all her forces to bear and crash the bill to the ground in flames.......
Isaiah 6:5
“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
We are reliably informed that it is 25% pork. Trumpsters rejoice.
" First they came for the journalists...
We don't know what happened after that . "
Maria Ressa.
Wolverine (03-27-2020)
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