Tulsi Gabbard calls for giving Americans $1K a month during coronavirus outbreak

[txradioguy]

Don't you know by now, it's always the other guy and if you can't recall what he looks like I'm sure you have a mirror at home.

I'm really tired of being the other guy in these situations.

[GtHawk]

I'm really tired of being the other guy in these situations.

I'm going to change my name to Juan Lopez Maria Lozano Gonzalez Lopez Lopez and claim to be an undocumented immigrant so I can get free shit, all I have ever done is be the other guy too!

[roamer_1]

I understand your terminology but question your assertion that it makes no difference in quantitative amounts.

No, it was YOUR terminology, and that in fact is the problem, not the quantity. Redistribution is the bane of capitalism

[GtHawk]

At first I heard that all adults will be getting a check.  Then I read that they will be using tax returns to determine who will be getting a check.  So I'd assume that those receiving social security, disability or other gov't funding won't be getting anything.  To me that's a kick in the butt, because those receiving social security have paid into it.  Yes they have to draw the line somewhere, but as I mentioned before, they can't afford to give a raise that will actually help to those collecting SS, but they can afford this??  They can't.

Here's a thought, if they use tax returns to determine checks would they exclude all the illegals that already cheat the taxpayer using IRS provided Tax  ID's and claiming every resident of old Mejico as a dependent? I already know what the liberal socialists would say, nay demand.

[corbe]

   If we have a 10% GDP for the next 7 years we can pay this $hit off in a flash.   

[mrclose]

Where's John Beresford Tipton when you need him??   

@musiclady

I don't think we ever saw JBT except in profile?

The guy everyone was waing on was ...

[Hoodat]

   If we have a 10% GDP for the next 7 years we can pay this $hit off in a flash.   

The only possible way we could do that is if our budget was balanced.

[musiclady]

@mrclose

I only remember hearing his voice.

You're right.  That guy in the photo is who we saw, but it was JBT who was the moneybags.

Too bad he's not still around.   

[libertybele]

The only possible way we could do that is if our budget was balanced.

Well...like him or not ....Beginning with the 1998 budget year, during his second term, the federal government ran a yearly budget surplus through FY 2001. During the Clinton administration, there was an official surplus of $419 billion during fiscal years 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2001.

We haven't had a surplus or a balanced budget since.

[corbe]

   I think a few Briefers can put that 'Trump was never a Conservative, anyway' argument away for now, because with this spending spree on maximum dial, he'd look like a total insensitive d*ck if he got in the way of another Congressional Money Train.
 
   Apparently he's still learning the ways of his formidable opponent: McConnell, pelousy/shumer.
   

[Hoodat]

Well...like him or not ....Beginning with the 1998 budget year, during his second term, the federal government ran a yearly budget surplus through FY 2001.

Uh, no.  That never happened.

During the Clinton administration, there was an official surplus of $419 billion during fiscal years 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2001.[/i]

Nope.  We ran deficits all four of those years.

We haven't had a surplus or a balanced budget since.

We haven't had a surplus or a balanced budget since 1957.

[mrclose]

@mrclose

I only remember hearing his voice.

You're right.  That guy in the photo is who we saw, but it was JBT who was the moneybags.

Too bad he's not still around.   

@musiclady

Start the video at 8:05 for the good stuff!


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[roamer_1]

Well...like him or not ....Beginning with the 1998 budget year, during his second term, the federal government ran a yearly budget surplus through FY 2001. During the Clinton administration, there was an official surplus of $419 billion during fiscal years 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2001.

We haven't had a surplus or a balanced budget since.

Right... Because of the '94 Congress... Clinton was along for the ride.
We haven't had a Conservative outbreak since.

[DB]

Right... Because of the '94 Congress... Clinton was along for the ride.
We haven't had a Conservative outbreak since.

Contract with America.

[roamer_1]

Contract with America.

YEP.

[Formerly Once-Ler]

Who's gonna pay for it?

M E X I C O !!!


Admit it.  You set that up for me. 
You win my "straight man" award this week. 
I couldn't have done it without you.  @txradioguy

[DB]

Lets be honest.

The money is going to come off the printing press.

And in the process everyone's money is going to be worth a little less and everything will cost a little more in terms of dollars - ad infinitum.

[sneakypete]

I can think of no better way to make 1,000 bucks have the purchasing power of 100 bucks.

[Sighlass]

Is it just me, first this thread was titled "Romney proposes giving $1K to every US adult amid coronavirus" and now it morphed a couple of times...

Confusing the heck out of me... Don't change titles please. Now it reads "Tulsi Gabbard calls for giving Americans $1K a month during coronavirus outbreak"...

I go back to read the beginning posts and it looks like I jumped subjects.

[Applewood]

Is it just me, first this thread was titled "Romney proposes giving $1K to every US adult amid coronavirus" and now it morphed a couple of times...

Confusing the heck out of me... Don't change titles please. Now it reads "Tulsi Gabbard calls for giving Americans $1K a month during coronavirus outbreak"...

I go back to read the beginning posts and it looks like I jumped subjects.

Tulsi Gabbard made the "give everyone a check" proposal first, then Mitt Romney jumped in with his.  There were separate threads for each, but they have been combined.

I see Maxine Waters has her own proposal,  There is a separate thread for it.

I've joked about getting my check, but truth is, I don't want any money from the government.  These giveaways are going to turn this country into Venezuela.

[catfish1957]

Tulsi Gabbard made the "give everyone a check" proposal first, then Mitt Romney jumped in with his.  There were separate threads for each, but they have been combined.

I see Maxine Waters has her own proposal,  There is a separate thread for it.

I've joked about getting my check, but truth is, I don't want any money from the government.  These giveaways are going to turn this country into Venezuela.

The first steps to socialism are slippery indeed........

Atlas Shrugged in 10..9..8...

[verga]

This will all have to be paid back by a future  generation


I might be wrong but then at some point don’t you have to declare it as extra income on your taxes?

Bingo! that was my concern. I try to calculate our taxes so I either get just a little back or have to pay just a small amount. This will throw all of tha off.

[verga]

Are these checks just for people out of work or for everyone...there has to be a cut-off amount for people getting checks.

IMNHO if you are on public assistance you don't get a dime.

[mrclose]

Tulsi Gabbard made the "give everyone a check" proposal first, then Mitt Romney jumped in with his.  There were separate threads for each, but they have been combined.

I see Maxine Waters has her own proposal,  There is a separate thread for it.

I've joked about getting my check, but truth is, I don't want any money from the government.  These giveaways are going to turn this country into Venezuela.

@Applewood

Andrew Yang was the first during one of the debates.

[verga]

LOL! That thought crossed my mind as well. I made my "swan song" trip to the grocery store yesterday. There were so many screaming, crying kids with runny noses it amazed me. I thought how tough it would be to be stuck in the house with them.

A friend of ours has six kids and made her weekly trip to the grocery store (without the kids) she was loading up and getting dirty looks. She explained that she was not hoarding and this was her normal weekly trip. A good week for her is less than $200.