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In reply to the discussion: Not everyone should get the $2000 check [View all]Roisin Ni Fiachra
(2,574 posts)Why give that money to working folks, or seniors, when we can spend some of it on bombs, and then give the rest of it away to billionaires through tax breaks for the wealthy? Not to mention the wealthy corporate grifters who appropriated a huge chunk of the money from the CARES ACT, that could have helped small businesses survive, but instead went to all expenses paid vacations, etc, for rich people to help them ride out the pandemic in their summer homes in the Hamptons,
Sorry, I'm just not buying the austerity thing, when the polarization of wealth is spinning out of control by the millisecond, exponentially, and the national minimum wage is fucking $7.25 an hour.
I'm sure a lot of folks, even if they can't afford it, will give some of that $2000 to food banks, in order to help their fellow Americans get enough to eat. Better the money should go there, rather than to pay for fuel rich people use to fly their private jets to wherever they can avoid the pandemic.