Mitch McConnell says labor shortage will end when people run out stimulus money
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Who do you consider to be his base and what are those paranoid, hateful beliefs they have? If by "his base" you mean "Republicans" I'd consider that to be an example of paranoid, hateful belief.
What will happen when those Republicans - the same people who you are calling "hateful and paranoid" - win the next two election rounds which they seem to be poised to do? Do you expect them to take your opinions into consideration, knowing that you deem theirs to be "paranoid and hateful"? How do you expect to be able to run your country like that, other than by running it into the ground?
That's 75 million out of about 258 million Americans of voting age. Who are you trying to impress? That's not a majority, and if abstentions counted as votes for "none of the above" then Trump would be seen as the fucking loser he's been since around 1988, and Biden would be in a boomer gulag^W^Wnursing home where he belongs.
> What will happen when those Republicans - the same people who you are calling "hateful and paranoid" - win the next two election rounds which they seem to be poised to do?
I expect them to become even more openly fascist than they've been thus far. It will happen here, and maybe we need to lose the republic before we can understand the value of keeping it.
The tree of liberty might be overdue for a good watering.
> Do you expect them to take your opinions into consideration
That would imply that they currently do so, or used to in the past. I won't say that Republicans want me dead because I'm a working-class, autistic, openly bisexual atheist and the child of an interracial marriage, but I think it's fair to say that the vast majority of them wouldn't so much as piss on me if I was on fire.
> How do you expect to be able to run your country like that, other than by running it into the ground?
Look here, brother. Who do you think you're jiving with that cosmic debris? I don't run shit; I just work here.
Good grief, you get hit by nearly all the Fucker Carlson hate spew.
Keep your head low... and stay safe.
Better keep out this litany of intersectional crossings if you really want to 'keep your head low', this looks more like waving a bunch of flags to me. Also, 'keep your ammo dry' sounds just like those Republicans with their Gadsden flags and as such is probably proof of the horseshoe theory [1] of political extremism.
Welcome to the Authoritarian States of America.
That's not hyperbole. It's coming. When SCOTUS rules on "independent legislature" the way everyone expects them to, it's all over.
Hope you enjoyed it while it lasted.
Perhaps Americans built up a huge amount of savings because the weren't allowed to leave their house to spend money on things they normally do.
I’m sure if you want a clear picture of how people are doing you’d just need to talk to loan sharks & listen to families having to loan out money to their adult kids to keep them afloat.
Assuming that someone qualified for all 3 checks, they totaled $3,200[0] before accounting for dependents. You're telling me that millions of households have managed to live on ~$150 per month for two years? I'm not buying it.
[0] https://www.pandemicoversight.gov/data-interactive-tools/dat...
Say you're married and have 3 kids under 6 and 1 kid over 6. With the fully refundable child tax credit, in 2021 your household would automatically receive 1400 x 2 + 3600 x 3 + 3000 = $16,600. That's more then 10% of Americans make a year at their jobs. That's not including any other benefits such as unemployment and food stamps, which you'd certainly be eligible for if you didn't have a job in 2021.
First of all, you picked an arbitrary four kids to pad out your numbers, but... if each kid costs $1,500 plus a month for childcare, it'd cost $6,000 a month, or $72,000 just for childcare. I get a few thousand of that back as a tax writeoff, but... it's not going to break even. So thanks for the $16,600... by your math I'm still over $50,000 in the hole. I make plenty more than $50k a year, but there's also, you know, rent... food... did you know the cost of natural gas has tripled this year? In the winter it's $400 a month to stave off hypothermia.
Second, the child tax credit is... not free money. It's a credit on my taxes, and it's also not new. The only thing that really changed with the child tax credit is that the government allows you to collect it monthly instead of all at once during tax season. Which really just changes the formula between getting a big refund and getting tiny chunks of refund throughout the year. And bear in mind, you have to be bringing in that much taxable income in the first place to actually get anything back.
I'm guessing you don't have kids, or you'd have some idea how the math works out on these. But having kids is... not affordable... in the current economy, even if you're making a solid non-Silicon Valley tech salary. The idea that anyone would pay $70 to fill their gas tank, to spend nearly $100 a day on childcare, to do some restaurant job paying $10 an hour is absolutely laughable.
> And bear in mind, you have to be bringing in that much taxable income in the first place to actually get anything back.
The 2021 child tax credit was fully refundable. You get it whether you owe taxes or not.
In Nebraska, maybe. Not here.
> we're talking about a family who's unemployed
No, I definitely wasn't, and if you were, almost nothing you're speaking of would apply anyways.
> You get it whether you owe taxes or not.
There's a difference between "not owing taxes" and "not having taxable income".
> There's a difference between "not owing taxes" and "not having taxable income".
You get it whether or not you have taxable income.