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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTax cuts don't help when everyone is quarantined
It's not a spending problem you Orange Idiot.
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Tax cuts don't help when everyone is quarantined (Original Post)
Drahthaardogs
Mar 2020
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CottonBear
(21,596 posts)1. I cannot work from home. So, if I am quarantined,
Unless the state or my private employers replace my paycheck, I wont be paid.
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)2. No kidding. How about mandatory sick days
Like every other civilized country
Ohiogal
(32,113 posts)3. I admit I was having trouble
figuring out how a payroll tax reduction would help anything at all.
How about helping people, not corporations, you GOP suck ups.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)4. Used to be call vote buying.
This has been a backup plan by the GOP in order to counter Dem Tax hike talk.
MoonlitKnight
(1,584 posts)5. Or laid off
Turbineguy
(37,374 posts)6. There is no trump program
that would ever help those who need help most.
Trumps programs are to help the rich.
Anything left over is trickle-down.
doc03
(35,389 posts)7. How do we do tax cuts when Trump has already doubled the deficit? If it was a Democrat in
office not one Republican would vote for a stimulus.