Martha McSally wants to pay people to go on vacation as virus spikes in her state

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By Dan Desai Martin -June 24, 2020 10:01 AM

The GOP senator's proposal incentivizes travel even as health experts are cautioning against it.

Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ) unveiled a proposal Monday that would give a tax credit to families to go on vacation even as coronavirus cases increase in several areas of the country.

McSally’s proposal would provide each adult a $4,000 tax credit, plus $500 per child, to be used for a vacation, meaning a family of five would receive $9,500, according to a press release from McSally’s office. The credit could only be used for vacations in the United States; would only apply to vacations at least 50 miles from a person’s primary residence; and would cover travel lodging, entertainment, and other expenses.

McSally said that the tourism industry has been hurt by the pandemic and its “revival is critical to our economic recovery.”

Bloomberg reporter Steven Dennis noted Monday that if 100 million Americans took advantage of the proposal, it would cost the federal government $400 billion. The legislation contains no offsets, meaning the total cost would be added to the deficit.

Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation

WE don't need a vacation McSally.............. we need the Hero's Act passed by the House and sitting on #Moscow Mitch's fucking desk...................

[BeyondGeography]

1. Creative

Kind of like rewarding people for exercising as long as it includes putting your fist through a plate glass window.

[North Shore Chicago]

7. +1

[crickets]

10. :nods: Idiotic was the word that came to mind for me. nt

[panader0]

2. Well, Cuomo says they can't go to New York, New Jersey or Connecticut

without a 14 day quarantine. Arizona, Alabama, North and South Carolina, Texas and more.
eta: Fuck McSally.

[notdarkyet]

3. She can give the whole state away and won't be re-elected. She wasn't elected the first time she

Was appointed.

[Jirel]

4. No, thank you!

You keep your plague rats at home! The rest of the country is not for offloading your rising need for hospital beds, nor for infecting areas that are fighting to keep numbers down!

[lettucebe]

5. One of the dumbest ideas I've heard (there's been so many!)

How ignorant can you get? Vacation? Where? Why? Nothing is open, and where things are open it's 25% of the experience you'd had prior to Covid-19.

It's just stupid. McSally needs to be gone yesterday

[xmas74]

6. If I leave the state I will be quarantined 14 days

Before being allowed to return to work.

[UCmeNdc]

8. This idea is Republican Stupid! Let Arizona state pay for it if she wants it so much.

[ooky]

9. Will be glad when this worthless magat is gone from all political office.

She's like a case of the 7 year itch.

[Yavin4]

11. Govt. funded virus spread.

Great every state can have spikes. Sort of like a death race.