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interesting I wonder what those ers are planning
Obamacare’s About to Get a Lot More Affordable. These Maps Show How.
For this year and next, the stimulus bill boosts subsidies for nearly all those buying their own coverage,
making insurance free for more people and
giving higher-income people discounts for the first time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/10/u...wer-costs.html
interesting I wonder what those ers are planning
how much of the $1.9T will be stolen through fraund and BigFinance "fees"?
Here's yet another in the series of unending Big Lies from the Repugs
The GOP has a new reality-warping message
Republicans on Capitol Hill launched a PR campaign aimed at suppressing Democrats' future ability to claim credit for a post-pandemic economic recovery.
GOP leaders,
arguing that the massive relief measure was unnecessary,
claimed that America's recovery was already underway and that the
Democrats' sweeping package would only hinder — rather than hasten — the economy's revival.
"The economy is coming back, people are getting vaccinated: We're on the way out of this,"
"We're about to have a boom.
And if we do have a boom, it will have absolutely nothing to do with this $1.9 trillion."
https://www.rawstory.com/joe-biden-economy
Expect all Repugs, Federal and state, and the right wing hate media to start repeating this Big Lie for months.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 03-11-2021 at 07:49 AM.
Bill includes $60 billion in new corporate and business taxes.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/0...x-hikes-475051
How aggressively will Yellen pursue these taxes?
Will she and Biden dump Trash sycophant, anti-taxer Rettig for a serious commissioner?
Will Dems add $500B+ to IRS budget, the $500B+ that Repugs cut?
Retting?
"Rettig was a partner at the Beverly Hillstax controversy law firm of Hochman, Salkin, Rettig, Toscher & Perez, P.C.
He worked at the firm for over 36 years, where
he represented individuals and corporations before federal and state taxing authorities"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Rettig
An ideal kakistocrat sent to up his agency
throwing money at poverty alleviates it
As in 2020 with CARES, ARP reduces poverty short-term (the breaks for kids (if you have kids) are long-term)
$15/hour Federal minimum, indexed to inflation like Congressional salaries and SS, is forever
Joe and Kammy overcoming obstructionisms by Orange Baboon and McConnel.
In less then 2 months.
The filibuster is the Dem killer. Even if Dems tried to kill the filibuster, at least Manchin, and probably other Dem Senators, like the Senate ed up and regressive, ruled by a minority.
Hypocritical, but shrewd.
It's a political mistake to let the Dems own 100% of the COVID relief bill, ~60% of Republicans and 70-75% of Americans overall support it.
COVID relief to states can't used to cut taxes. If states are determined have broken the rules, the US Treasury will recoup the money.
The ARA, summarized section by section
https://www.democrats.senate.gov/imo...20Summary1.pdf
Let’s start with the health infrastructure investments. There’s a section on providing medical supplies and personnel for rural healthcare providers, something that will be difficult to dislodge post-pandemic. There’s $7.6 billion for state and local health department workers and another $7.6 billion for community health centers, which provide basic care to poor communities. For context, Bernie Sanders got $11 billion for community health centers in the Affordable Care Act over five years, and it made a significant difference.
Then there’s the school funding, $128 billion dedicated to K-12. The formula under which it will be given will deliver more to the poorest schools, up to $8,000 per student in low-income districts like Cleveland. Outside of a 20 percent set-aside to address lost learning in the pandemic year, that funding has a pretty wide discretion, meaning it can be used to make long-term investments
The $39 billion in child care grants can rebuild care infrastructure, which our special report last year showed is desperately needed. Thought about as a one-year investment it’s absolutely enormous. There’s also a $7 billion Emergency Connectivity Fund for remote learning, which comes too late but can help provide lasting broadband infrastructure. The $200 million for libraries is also a broadband infrastructure investment for those who have no other options for connectivity. There’s also $30.5 billion for public transit, which will go toward arresting the sector-wide crisis from low pandemic ridership, which easily could have spiraled into permanent cutbacks. This will sustain transit budgets until 2023 in some areas.
$350 billion investment in state and local governments, which thanks to a last-minute change, can go toward service improvement in things like water, sewage, and broadband. While being from Los Angeles and seeing up-close our pandemic-driven crisis in public budgeting makes me happiest that this money will avert those tough choices (see Janet Yellen on how we learned from the financial crisis not to offset federal stimulus with state and local austerity), there’s no doubt some of this money will pour into lasting investments and upgrades in key systems. Similarly, the $31 billion for tribal governments, the largest investment in those communities in some time, will likely include lasting infrastructure; some of it is earmarked for housing.
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Last edited by Winehole23; 03-15-2021 at 06:19 PM.
There were 180 Republican amendments added to the ARA, yet still, zero Republicans voted for it.
So much for the bill passing *without input from Republicans.*
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Last edited by boutons_deux; 03-15-2021 at 11:09 AM.
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