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    what's the common word for a political system where both major parties refuse to pass broadly popular policies?

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    I don't get it. Manchin didn't want 400 per until August but is okay with 300 per until September? That math doesn't make sense.

    Today's Senate

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    I don't get it. Manchin didn't want 400 per until August but is okay with 300 per until September? That math doesn't make sense.

    Today's Senate
    What I don't get, is what did Joe Manchin get?

    What did WV get?

    What's the win?

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    Zero republicans were tempted to join by the maneuver.

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    What I don't get, is what did Joe Manchin get?

    What did WV get?

    What's the win?
    Save face. Guy holds up a vote for 8 hours and only moves deadline from end of September to early September.

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    Voting on that bill right this minute too.

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    What I don't get, is what did Joe Manchin get?

    What did WV get?

    What's the win?
    My guess is that, as most important man in the Senate, it was simply self-aggrandizing, look-at-me-do-my-gratuitous-power-play bull .

    Will he run on telling his voters that they should should "vote for me because I cut your pandemic pay"?

    Politicians run to get (more) wealthy, powerful, influential, and prioritize themselves (and their BigDonor class that gets $Ts in tax cuts) over the common good.

    Typifies the terminal corruption of the entire political class, the un ability of America.

    Exactly why ing voting is a ing joke of uselessness in actually getting whom you elected to do what you elected them for.

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    Joe Manchin's West Virginia counterpart has

    'no idea what he's doing'


    He's already derailed a Cabinet nominee (Tandon)

    and led the opposition to a federal $15 minimum wage even as his party's leaders pushed for it.

    But Friday was Manchin's most quintessential moment:

    The centrist Democrat paralyzed the entire Senate for more than 10 hours and

    threatened to side with Republicans seeking to cut weeks of unemployment benefits,"

    Sen. S ey Moore Capito (R-WV) ...

    "I have no idea what he's doing, to be quite frank," she said. "Maybe you can tell me."

    https://www.rawstory.com/joe-manchin..._campaign=6736



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    "The current legislation, which adopted the amendment, kept the formula the same, equalizing payments between adults and children. That means if the new bill is enacted, a family of four would be on the receiving end of a one-time check worth $5,600.

    The money doesn’t stop there.

    A new child tax credit, which would be implemented for just one year but which Democrats aim to extend, offers $3,600 for every child under 6 and $3,000 for every non-adult child above that age.

    The aim is to have the IRS send out a check each month to families making less than $150,000.

    (So that family of four above, if both kids are under 6, would get $600 each month if the IRS can administer the system effectively.

    If the kids are older, it would be $500 each month.)

    https://theintercept.com/2021/03/05/...t%20Newsletter

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    A year into the pandemic, many Texans still struggling financially and emotionally

    Loss of income from the oil industry.

    Loss of family.

    Lasting COVID-19 symptoms.

    A looming eviction.

    A strained marriage.


    Monica Jimenez and her family are very much still weathering the economic and emotional fallout of the past year since the coronavirus pandemic began spreading in Texas.

    https://www.texastribune.org/2021/03...nal-struggles/

    Both multi-millionaire TX Senators vote against the covid relief bill.



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    "The current legislation, which adopted the amendment, kept the formula the same, equalizing payments between adults and children. That means if the new bill is enacted, a family of four would be on the receiving end of a one-time check worth $5,600.

    The money doesn’t stop there.

    A new child tax credit, which would be implemented for just one year but which Democrats aim to extend, offers $3,600 for every child under 6 and $3,000 for every non-adult child above that age.

    The aim is to have the IRS send out a check each month to families making less than $150,000.

    (So that family of four above, if both kids are under 6, would get $600 each month if the IRS can administer the system effectively.

    If the kids are older, it would be $500 each month.)

    https://theintercept.com/2021/03/05/...t%20Newsletter
    Using the IRS to administer social welfare programs could have a lot of applications. It could be one way to make the IRS strong enough to make rich people pay their taxes.

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    They’re now voting on the very last amendment of the vote a Rama which has lasted more than 24 hours. The next one should be for the big one.

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    Done and dusted. COVID Relief bill passes among party lines 50-49.

    Kamala not needed because republicans were missing a member.

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    Using the IRS to administer social welfare programs could have a lot of applications. It could be one way to make the IRS strong enough to make rich people pay their taxes.
    Repugs spent years cutting IRS budget by $500M which cut into tax enforcement of complex cases (of the wealthy and corporations).

    $1 enforcement returns $7 collected

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    bill passes, 50-49 with a AK Repug asshole absent

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