Sorry, but this "$2,000/month for everyone" is total crap

[Jamastiene]

108. THIS

Don't forget bombs. Our government never complains about bombs costing too much.

They only ever complain about how much things cost when the middle class or poor might get something. When it is their rich buddies, most of whom do not pay taxes because they either roll it up in charities, corporations, or banks outside of the US, our government cannot wait to open the pocketbook full of our tax dollars to redistribute wealth to their 1%er buddies.

When it might help the middle class or poor, ALL OF A SUDDEN, it is a major problem. The US government has mismanaged our tax dollars for ages and created a massive debt. The US government is the stingiest government in the world when it comes to its own people.

The rest of the countries in the west have governments that use their tax dollars to give them healthcare without a racket of "health insurance" in between the people and healthcare. The rest of the counties in the west are supporting their citizens through a UBI through this pandemic. They just have that and don't have to worry about homelessness or dying of something because they cannot afford healthcare.

Yet, here in America, a bunch of stingy asses have bought into the Republican claptrap of "this costs too much. How will our grandchildren pay for this?"

Uhm, they won't, just like we aren't paying for it. They have been using that excuse long enough now that another generation is here and no one is paying for it still. Stop using that excuse to pull at people's heart strings about their grandkids.

The deficit/debt has been there for decades, at least, now and keeps growing under every Republican, even more under them than under Democrats, most of the time. No one will pay for it. "Our children and grandchildren" get thrown at us like in 50 years, they will each of a sudden get a trillion dollar bill in the mail.

We only ever hear that when someone suggests giving the middle class and poor some of our tax dollars back. We never hear it except when it might benefit the poor and middle class. If they give our tax dollars to corporations or the uber rich, no one says a word. *crickets* about the debt and the grandkids are never brought up. Our government knows how to play on people's emotions and people fall for it Every. Single. Time.

Decades of giving to corporations and the uber rich is what created the massive debt our government has in the first place.

"What about the children and grandchildren?" This has been going on long enough that we ARE the children and grandchildren now.