That’s the funniest part about people praising governments for giving them relief money. Although there are strong arguments for the initial relief check if the economy was to reopen almost immediately as planned, it’s still our money, and a meager fraction of it. The math is much more complicated than this, but for simplicity, let’s just say the average federal income tax is 25%, my state’s income tax is around 13%, and then you’re paying 10% sales tax on top of that across all transactions. That’s like half of everyone’s income right there. That’s not touching property taxes and capital gains taxes and the money you leave to your children after dying being taxed, or the infinite number of stupid BS taxes we have in the Bay Area, like the ‘low wage workers’ tax of around 10% if you go to some restaurants being added onto the bill on top of what you’re already tipping and paying in tax for an inflated meal. We even have additional taxes to give more money to failing public schools teaching kids to be retards and offering required reading like “Waking up White” and “Antiracism.” Not even joking.
Keeping the math simple despite it being way more complex than this, if someone’s making $50k a year, which is probably about average nation wide between the high and low earners but if not it’s an easy number, half or more of that ends up going to the government to be immediately embezzled. $25k a year on average, per working person. Then they decide to give you $1.2k of it back after putting you out of work. In the grand scheme of things year over year, that’s probably less than 1%.
That’s not even considering newer, ‘innovative’ forms of taxes on the middle class, like Obamacare. You’re now required to pay $500-1K or more a month than before to receive worse healthcare. We’re not getting anything back in public services from this, either. Public college tuitions now rival private schools, and they’ve all turned into postmodern nonsense on top of that. Public schools are largely now worthless money pits as well.
Then you look at the rest of the stimulus bill, and most of it isn’t even the $1.2k checks per person within the trillion dollar budgets. They’re even trying to give our money away to illegals now too.
Fuck anyone and everyone keeping the economy closed at this point. Stay home if you want to stay home. Let the adults go back to work. The quarantine doesn’t even seem to work very well across most available metrics anyway.
Then you look at politicians supporting it right now, like Pelosi, and she’s a multimillionaire. You should not be a multimillionaire from being a fucking politician. Even her countless facial surgeries wreak of corruption.
Exactly..I do not want the 1200 if it means freebies to all illegals on our backs..Trump needs to veto this slush fund. Anything the Dems want or has Pelosis name on it is not good for America! I'm done with this lockdown..back to work and open business!
They should let everybody vote on two options. One is a stimulus bill for illegal aliens given out while we all stay home and go into debt. The other is just going back to work and being human beings again. It’d be another landslide victor for the Trump side of things.
Even the stimulus money from last time’s pretty worthless if people are out of work for half a fucking year. It was only supposed to be for like a month or less.
Yes at the time it was to be about a month at most..not this long by any means. I'm in California and Ive been pretty much shut in from mid March! It is time to get out and back to work! The hell with another stimulus for me..it isn't going to save jobs, and put peoples lives back together! F Nancy and the Dems!
I’m in CA too at ground zero in the Bay where Pelosi reigns. The whole area completely melted down. Hobos and coyotes took it over. Even here people are fed up though and starting to ignore things to the extent they can when weather permits.
That’s the funniest part about people praising governments for giving them relief money. Although there are strong arguments for the initial relief check if the economy was to reopen almost immediately as planned, it’s still our money, and a meager fraction of it. The math is much more complicated than this, but for simplicity, let’s just say the average federal income tax is 25%, my state’s income tax is around 13%, and then you’re paying 10% sales tax on top of that across all transactions. That’s like half of everyone’s income right there. That’s not touching property taxes and capital gains taxes and the money you leave to your children after dying being taxed, or the infinite number of stupid BS taxes we have in the Bay Area, like the ‘low wage workers’ tax of around 10% if you go to some restaurants being added onto the bill on top of what you’re already tipping and paying in tax for an inflated meal. We even have additional taxes to give more money to failing public schools teaching kids to be retards and offering required reading like “Waking up White” and “Antiracism.” Not even joking.
Keeping the math simple despite it being way more complex than this, if someone’s making $50k a year, which is probably about average nation wide between the high and low earners but if not it’s an easy number, half or more of that ends up going to the government to be immediately embezzled. $25k a year on average, per working person. Then they decide to give you $1.2k of it back after putting you out of work. In the grand scheme of things year over year, that’s probably less than 1%.
That’s not even considering newer, ‘innovative’ forms of taxes on the middle class, like Obamacare. You’re now required to pay $500-1K or more a month than before to receive worse healthcare. We’re not getting anything back in public services from this, either. Public college tuitions now rival private schools, and they’ve all turned into postmodern nonsense on top of that. Public schools are largely now worthless money pits as well.
Then you look at the rest of the stimulus bill, and most of it isn’t even the $1.2k checks per person within the trillion dollar budgets. They’re even trying to give our money away to illegals now too.
Fuck anyone and everyone keeping the economy closed at this point. Stay home if you want to stay home. Let the adults go back to work. The quarantine doesn’t even seem to work very well across most available metrics anyway.
Then you look at politicians supporting it right now, like Pelosi, and she’s a multimillionaire. You should not be a multimillionaire from being a fucking politician. Even her countless facial surgeries wreak of corruption.
Exactly..I do not want the 1200 if it means freebies to all illegals on our backs..Trump needs to veto this slush fund. Anything the Dems want or has Pelosis name on it is not good for America! I'm done with this lockdown..back to work and open business!
They should let everybody vote on two options. One is a stimulus bill for illegal aliens given out while we all stay home and go into debt. The other is just going back to work and being human beings again. It’d be another landslide victor for the Trump side of things.
Even the stimulus money from last time’s pretty worthless if people are out of work for half a fucking year. It was only supposed to be for like a month or less.
Yes at the time it was to be about a month at most..not this long by any means. I'm in California and Ive been pretty much shut in from mid March! It is time to get out and back to work! The hell with another stimulus for me..it isn't going to save jobs, and put peoples lives back together! F Nancy and the Dems!
I’m in CA too at ground zero in the Bay where Pelosi reigns. The whole area completely melted down. Hobos and coyotes took it over. Even here people are fed up though and starting to ignore things to the extent they can when weather permits.