The fact that she won with >70% of the vote is shocking to me. I don't know a single person IRL that likes that woman.

The goal would be to encourage the middle class to maintain their own "safety net" of several months' worth of liquid assets. That way if they lose their job, or incur a large unexpected expense, or the government decides to ban them from going to work for two months, or something along those lines, it becomes an economic setback rather than an unmitigated disaster.

EDIT: To be clear, I'm suggesting that the money in savings is deductible from your income tax, IE if you pay taxes on $50k a year and you've got $10k in your savings, then you only pay income taxes on $40k a year.

We will move past this. The economy will recover before November, and there will be deaths comparable to a bad flu season from the Chinese Virus, nothing more.

Economic concern trolls on this board are just as bad as virus doomsday shills. I see em, and I deport em.

"Wahh teh social distancing for an extra two weeks will put america out oof business DEPRESSION APOCALYPSE WAAH" -- nope, deported shill.

"Wahh the virus will kill us all theirs not enough ventilators, low test count per capita WEREALLGONNADIE ITALY WAAH" -- nope, deported shill.

Trump is doing the right thing. We have absolutely no reason to doubt him.

This was a one-time payment necessary to prevent mass-scale job loss, unemployment, and industry collapse over the next three months. And the govt OWES IT TO THEM for shutting them down in the first place. You don't have to like it to acknowledge that action was necessary. It doesn't have to be perfect to be good.

IT WAS NECESSARY.

If you can't see a difference between emergency disaster relief and permanent socialist wealth redistribution policy, then you're a God damned shill and you need to GTFO.

That is all.

For those of you who don't "believe the hype" about the pandemic, humor me for a moment regarding the potential lethality of the coronavirus, because whether you believe it or not, this is still a potent angle to consider for others who do believe it.

Trump's economy will save the lives of tens of thousands (perhaps hundreds of thousands) of people by the time all this is said and done. Here's the situation going into this pandemic:

• We are in no significant wars.

• We are virtually maxed out in employment.

• Interest is down, loans are easy to get.

• America is energy independent.

• Food, gas and power are plentiful and dirt cheap.

• Borders are secure.

• Crime is way down.

• Businesses and average Americans have record-setting savings and liquidity.

So where does that put us? Our supply lines are strong enough to keep up with a non-stop 24/7 month of APOCALYPSE-LEVEL panic purchases. Our tech infrastructure is robust enough that a third of the country can shift to working remotely without interruption. Our industries are so flush with cash that many are voluntarily absorbing the economic damage for the good of their customers and employees (loan deferments, elimination of co-pays, extra paid sick leave, etc). Finally, we're moving into the summer months where instances of conventional cold and flu will be lower, meaning the burden on the national medical system will be as low as it ever gets when this thing really kicks off. Simply put, there has never been a country more prepared for a catastrophe like this one, and as strange as it is to say, it couldn't have happened at a better time (especially with Trump at the wheel).

The cost to the American people will be staggering. Federally-funded per-household stimulus for those who can't work during the self quarantine is in the works, not to mention the airline, hotel, and cruise bailouts. Then there's the hit to the market itself, with DOW dropping from 29k to 21k seemingly overnight. There's also the overall loss of business from more-difficult work conditions, loss of buyers, international supply chain disruptions, and reduced workforce because so many people will be at home watching their kids without the schools up and running. Finally, there's the matter of paying for all those tests, injections, samples, masks, gloves, respirators, beds, gowns, pills, and everything else involved with treating thousands and thousands of coronavirus patients. All added up, we're looking at a cost in the trillions.

So what does all that money buy us?

• For starters: FEWER PEOPLE IN THE US WILL DIE FROM CORONAVIRUS THAN DIED LAST FLU SEASON TO THE FLU. Mark my words.

• America will have proven that it can function in the worst of times all on its own WITHOUT CHINA'S SUPPLY CHAIN.

• Future diseases that threaten to become pandemics will have a tried-and-true countermeasure blueprint (along with tons of surplus equipment), massively increasing the protection of the US from these kinds of outbreaks for future generations.

• America will have proven that a PARTNERSHIP with private industry, not a TAKE-OVER, is the best method to weather a significant disaster.

We will buy all of this with dollars, not lives. And all of this will be possible because of the economic position that Trump put us in. Without Trump's economy and without Trump's anti-interventionalist America First policies, deaths in the millions could actually happen, a modern-day Spanish Flu repeat. But we ARE prepared, and when we come out of this shit storm in the next few months, the economy will pick up where we left off, and people will soon start telling stories about "that time they had to stay home for a month because of the Chinese cold or whatever."

That's my take on all this, anyway.