Democrats are about to start sending monthly checks for most U.S. children. Why are Republicans so

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

quiet?

President Biden is expected to sign his $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan this week, sending $1,400 checks to millions of Americans and unleashing billions of dollars for schools, COVID-19 vaccinations, struggling farmers, the transportation sector, and others beneficiaries.

The package also "includes a plan to temporarily raise the child tax credit that could end up permanently changing the way the country deals with child poverty," The Associated Press reports. Most parents will get monthly payments of up to $300 for each child 5 and under and $250 for children 6 to 17.

"The child benefit has the makings of a policy revolution," The New York Times reports. "It is essentially a guaranteed income for families with children," aiding "more than 93 percent of children" in the U.S. A recent study found it will reduce child poverty by 45 percent, and more among Black families. Democrats intend to make the one-year benefit permanent.

"Opposition has been surprisingly muted," the Times reports. No Republicans will vote for the bill, but Biden is about to sign "the greatest expansion of the welfare state since LBJ," Politico's Playbook said Monday. "How did Democrats win this fight over welfare while barely firing a shot?"

https://www.yahoo.com/news/democrats-start-sending-monthly-checks-101145864.html

[sboatcar]

1. Its because they know it'll be popular

and they can't stand possibly giving the other side any credit

[frazzled]

2. In addition to helping to erase child poverty

It will also help middle-class parents, and by extension the economy.

I know how we would have used it back in the day, as parents barely hanging on to the middle class back then. Both my kids took music lessons (not our idea at all; they each had to beg us—my daughter for violin, my son for piano). I can’t tell you how much we tightened our belts to pay for those lessons. When my son got passed on by his neighborhood piano teacher to a higher level one at the music school, I remember the lessons started out at $60 and went up to $75 per weekly lesson. By the time he was a senior in high school, after we’d moved to another state, the price had gone up to a whopping $125 a week.

Now this may sound frivolous, but I wouldn’t have traded those sacrifices for anything, even though neither kid became a professional musician, and it meant we had little left over for other things. Think of the kids who would love to play the trumpet, but can’t afford a good teacher, or a kid who wants to go to robotics camp, or get orthodontics work for crooked teeth, or any other damned life-enhancing luxury their parents can’t afford for them. Dreams and possibilities open up, and then maybe mom and dad, instead of struggling to pay for piano lessons, could have gotten that new stove.

[SCantiGOP]

3. Like the idiots in Idaho burning masks

Why don’t they all request paper checks and burn them to make a point?

[Still Sensible]

4. Short answer: Because it will work and they do not have a way to take credit for it!

But I predict shortly after its implementation, the factions of the GOP will be on a messaging spree to find areas where they can try to bend reality. Of course, after kissing tRump's ass to the tune of $7.2 trillion to support his bullshit the last four years, the GOP--as expected--now is deeply concerned about the deficit.

The OBSTINATE faction--this is the least nutjob, but still steadfast no voters on the bill--will try to use the old "it's only $1,400 and Trump wanted more argument. This is also the group that will claim they forced some late concessions to keep out the $15 minimum wage and lower the spending for unemployment.

The NUTJOB faction now makes up the "middle" of the GOP. They will spend the next six months nitpicking every minor issue that comes from the implementation. You know, these are the dimwits that have been silent as hell while watching a shit-ton of waste and fraud examples when the tRumpster stimulus rolled out last year.

Finally there's the Q_TRAITORS, those that are in Q-Fantasy land. While it is not really easy to predict what these hyper assholes will come up with, my best guess is that it will range from them ramping up their communism rhetoric to claiming that somehow the orange anus is still secretly in charge (to explain why the economy is doing so well).

Of course, all of their hand-wringing and pearl clutching will be against a backdrop of rapid recovery and economic growth--assuming the experts are right about the expected performance of this Act.

[IzzaNuDay]

5. Because giving money to the already born goes against their grain

They are all for protecting the unborn, and spend resources, including campaign dollars to protect the unborn. The ones that are born, then not so much.