How long will it take for unemployment to reach pre-COVID-19 levels? Well, first, we’d have to reopen the country, and there are plenty saying it wouldn’t be safe to do so until we have a coronavirus vaccine, which could take over a year to produce. Those businesses still standing after that long should be able to rehire staffers, but a lot of employers will have closed down for good.
So it’s a gamble to pass a bill that would pay Americans over 16 $2,000 a month until unemployment reaches the level it was at before the coronavirus crisis, but Reps. Tim Ryan and Ro Khanna think that’s the way to go.
Whoah…. @RepTimRyan and @RoKhanna introduce bill that would pay eligible Americans over 16 $2k per month UNTIL unemployment returns to pre-COVID levels
They say: A married couple making under $260K with 3 kids would receive $5,500 per month. pic.twitter.com/NHf5pWpmC0
— Leigh Ann Caldwell (@LACaldwellDC) April 14, 2020
That’s assuming you get $500 per kid, and all the kids are under 16, right? Or else they’d be eligible for the $2,000 payment? We haven’t read the bill, but we have questions.
Who pays for this stuff?!
— ?RJN? (@RJNieder) April 14, 2020
To be delivered by leprechaun riding a unicorn
— furloughed bot (@genericsnark) April 14, 2020
They need to be drug tested A.S.A.P … or at the very least given a breathalyzer test…
— bob hope ?? (@NaRCiSSu5_iRC) April 14, 2020
Couple of comedians those guys.
— J_P_B (@JPBatl) April 14, 2020
They introduced a bill that will have our great great great grandchildren paying it off. We need to stop doing this crap.
— Capitalist pig and ?LOOOOOVING? it (@DezImpeach) April 14, 2020
Magic money printer go bbbrrrrrrrrr
— Chris (@ChrisMears00) April 14, 2020
3 Months later… pic.twitter.com/9NvWcvSTl5
— Gr81disp (@gr81disp) April 14, 2020
Well, because unemployment levels were extremely low before this crisis, we're basically signing up for a permanent monthly gift of $66k/year for the example family with 3 kids making $260k. This is, of course, ludicrous.
— Calvin Wells (@CalGTR) April 14, 2020
And it still won’t be enough for the former baristas living in cities with ridiculously high rents like San Francisco, unless of course there’s a complementary bill barring evictions until we reach former unemployment levels.
This is total lunacy.
— Schültzie (@muffnbear) April 14, 2020
— Eff the CCP (@NotBruinOregon) April 14, 2020
Siri, what do incentives not to work look like?
— Eff the CCP (@NotBruinOregon) April 14, 2020
This. Is stupid. Well done.
— Chris Tsotsoros (@ctsotsoros) April 14, 2020
Idiocy. Terrible that leftists don’t understand the difference between businesses that CREATE JOBS, and manufacture necessities that Americans NEED.
— Teri Cooper Brown? (@terib3294) April 14, 2020
What’s the incentive for them to get a job and make those pre-covid employment numbers levels go back down?
— commonsense (@commonsense258) April 14, 2020
Not to mention that many Americans (most, we’d assume) want to get out of the house and back to their job. People want to work.
What idiots.
— MsZuccarello (@CarmiOnTheVerge) April 14, 2020
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Rashida Tlaib deletes tweet claiming it's cheaper for the US to produce pre-loaded debit cards than stimulus checks https://t.co/npey06q61H
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) April 14, 2020
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