Step one:
Page 781 of the bill provides $25 million to the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives to cover "salary and expenses."
This is called a payoff. Pure and simple.
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Step one:
Page 781 of the bill provides $25 million to the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives to cover "salary and expenses."
This is called a payoff. Pure and simple.
False equivalency.
The government took unilateral action which directly caused individual Americans to lose thousands of dollars each. Now the government is using half its annual budget to give that money back to the people who lost it.
They're doing this to prevent massive unemployment surges and a tidal wave of new people getting onto long-term government programs. This thousand-or-so fun-time-wacky-bucks NOW will save us an order of magnitude more as compared to letting things fall where they fall.
For reasons I don't understand, you're conflating a focused and permanent policy of wealth redistribution with a one-time emergency disaster-relief payout.
Stop it.
One way or another, it will stop. I'm hoping it stops with us getting our income back. No I'm not talking about the retarded fucking stimulus. I'm talking about backing taxes down from 50+% to where they should be 2-3%. Also getting all these millions of faggots off welfare. 40+ million motherfuckers on foodstamps alone. ~80% of the budget is social shit that the gov shouldn't be involved with.