Second payroll stimulus for airlines
07-17-2020 | 04:05 PM
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Scenario 2:
The government overreacts to a minor illness similar to the flu and shuts down the economy, putting 30+ million capable people out of work practically overnight, destroying entire industries in the process, all to save an infinitesimal number of people (0.03% to be precise) who would have died anyway from a variety of co-morbidities if they had caught the common cold.
I would argue Scenario 1 warrants no assistance but scenario 2 does, by virtue of the fact that we all want to work and are fully capable of working, yet the government's inept and irrational policies restrict us from doing so. They created the problem, so they're responsible for cleaning it up.
The government screwed up, why should I be forced to pay the bill?
07-17-2020 | 04:42 PM
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07-17-2020 | 05:27 PM
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Which states would that be? I currently live in California and I can assure you this big -government state has screwed up the corona response as good as anyone, if not worse. The governor just announced today essentially the closing of all schools until January. Many of my business owner neighbors are staring at bankruptcy due to the mandatory shut down, reopen, shutdown goat rope here. This is a cluster everywhere it is ignorant and plain deceitful to suggest Democrat controlled states have somehow done a better job.
07-17-2020 | 05:33 PM
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Italy has 3x the population of Florida and had 1/10th the amount of deaths yesterday.
07-17-2020 | 06:52 PM
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07-17-2020 | 07:14 PM
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Democracy was so repugnant to rulers because the serfs (>50% of the population) would be able to write laws taxing the lords.
It is only in recent times the desire to tax the lords has wained, but that might be changing.
Most Americans have been paying taxes in paycheck after paycheck while living some form of paycheck to paycheck life yet when they need a little help for the first in over a decade they become a “burden”. Meanwhile at the palace...
It is only in recent times the desire to tax the lords has wained, but that might be changing.
Most Americans have been paying taxes in paycheck after paycheck while living some form of paycheck to paycheck life yet when they need a little help for the first in over a decade they become a “burden”. Meanwhile at the palace...
07-19-2020 | 06:47 PM
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We're all going to be paying the bill either way. It would probably be better to keep most of our salaries and our health insurance for another six months than deplete our savings. Compared to the unfathomable amounts spent over the past few months, airline payroll support is a drop in the bucket.
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