McConnell shutting down higher stimulus checks?

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(12-31-2020, 01:58 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: I'm not sure why anyone thinks the money being pushed out is really about the people that are hurting. If this were about providing a safety net to the citizenry, we'd have been doing what other western nations have been doing. No, this is about propping up the economy as a whole. Both the Republicans and Democrats have fiscal policies that favor corporations over the people, and if you think these funds are for anything other than that, you're kidding yourself. This is why it isn't targeted, because they don't care about the people that actually need this money. All they care about is putting money in the hands of the people so they will spend it. This includes putting it into the stock market or any other investments.

I had started a reply about how I meant "not putting it into the economy" as in your local businesses and mom and pops that are shuttering left and right.


Then as I was typing I realized that the majority of stimulus that wasn't saved most likely went to Walmart, Target, Amazon and other big corporations.