r/Conservative • u/Pessimist2020 • Dec 22 '20

Americans Excitedly Anticipate Getting Paid With Their Own Money Satire - Flaired Users Only

https://babylonbee.com/news/americans-excitedly-anticipate-getting-paid-with-their-own-money

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This is why they should have just evenly split the cares act between all americans instead of giving businesses the money. People are going to end up spending it at businesses they frequent. Just giving the money to businesses does not help the fact that a lot of people lost their income. Once the money ran out for the small businesses, there was once again no income because the people supporting the business don't have the extra money.

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u/TheAzureMage Dec 22 '20

That'd have been what, $2750 each?

That'd have been one hell of a stimulus.

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u/MrFunkyFresh70 Dec 22 '20

I think it would have been closer to $6,900 for every single american.

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u/TheAzureMage Dec 22 '20

For every single taxpayer, yeah. The $2750 is every man, woman and child, regardless of taxpaying status.

The $600 is even more restrictive than every taxpayer, though, due to the $75k income cap. So if it was just those people, it would be even higher than $6k.

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u/MrFunkyFresh70 Dec 22 '20

Regardless, I think we're trying to get to the same point here. They could have done a lot more to help people stay out of poverty and to help the economy, especially local economies, but they didn't.

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u/TheAzureMage Dec 22 '20

Oh, agreed.

Pretty much everyone of any political persuasion is likely to be on board here. It's really odd when conservatives and AOC are on the same side, but it tells you something about how messed up the process is.