Rethug Who Voted For Trump's Tax Scam Now Says There's 'Not Enough To Help Everyone' In Pandemic

[babylonsister]

5/11/20 7:42am
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Republican Who Voted For Trump's Tax Scam Now Says There's 'Not Enough To Help Everyone' In Pandemic
Lamar Alexander wants... austerity? There's 'not enough' left to help you and your family?
By Common Dreams


A top Republican senator who had no qualms with voting for a $1.5 trillion tax cut for the rich or a multi-trillion-dollar corporate slush fund said Sunday that, as millions of people across the U.S. struggle to afford basic necessities, there is "not enough money" to provide relief to everyone harmed by the coronavirus pandemic.

"There's not enough money to help everybody hurt when you shut down the government," Sen. Lamar Alexander, a Tennessee Republican and chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said in an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press."

"We have to reopen the economy, we have to do it carefully, we have to let people go back to work and earn a living," said Alexander. "And I don't see us being able to appropriate much more money to help provide a counter to that."

Progressive groups and economists reacted with outrage to Alexander's remarks, which came amid ongoing debates over the next coronavirus stimulus package as the relief provided by previous measures—such as expanded unemployment insurance and one-time stimulus payments—proves inadequate to match the scale of the crisis.

Stephanie Kelton, professor of economics at Stony Brook University, tweeted Sunday that she "can't believe we're hearing, 'We're out of money' in the early stages of a crisis. AGAIN."

"The truth is, Congress can appropriate whatever it chooses," Kelton said. "It literally cannot run out of money."

The Working Families Party said that Republicans "took care of their billionaire buddies and Wall Street bankers," and "now they're trying to say there's 'not enough' left to help you and your family."

"It's a lie," the group tweeted.

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https://crooksandliars.com/2020/05/republican-who-voted-trumps-tax-scam-now

[pwb]

1. Vote that relic out.

Him and Grassly.

[CatMor]

2. That must mean there is not enough money ...

to pay him and some of his colleagues for being useless.

[stopbush]

3. But why is it that those who "cannot be helped" are always the worst-off among us?

[RainCaster]

4. Time to claw back those funds from the wealthy!

We need to get back a whole lot more than the trillion dollars DFT gave them. Quadruple at least to help us get through this mess they orchestrated.

[jimfields33]

5. That shaded box towards the bottom the the article is pretty chilling

[stillcool]

6. any day now, they'll be extremely worried

about the national debt, and strapping the next generation with debt. May have to cut social programs...trim the fat. Which is why tax-cuts are needed.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. They are consistent in their evil -- money for donors, desperation for everyone else.

[stillcool]

8. they really are like dolls...

the kind that you pull the string, and they talk....but limited to certain sayings. No matter the decade, the doll does not waver, and neither does the response. Maybe it's an age thing, feeling what is past will be the future.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. There's plenty for all,

The problem is that Repugs want all of it to go to those who didn't create or cook it.

Wave a magic wand that eliminates all the billionaires and the favored of GOP and it won't create a hardship. Do the same for all factory workers OR all farmers OR all retail clerks OR all truck drivers OR (pick a working group) and there will be ripples of hardship rolling through the world pretty quickly.

[roamer65]

10. We heard the same shit from these vermin in Hurricane Sandy.

God damn red state Repukes takers always have their snouts in the trough when something happens to them, but it something happens to the blue states then there is none for you!

Attach CV aid for blue states to the next hurricane relief bill. No CV aid, no hurricane relief.

[mitch96]

11. The classic "I got mine, fuck you!"... nt