Couldn't you make the point this is worse than Welfare? How about socialism by leveling the playing fields affecting the poor and middle class only? That is unless you're dumb enough to believe the very wealthy pay for something. They sure as **** don't, only the middle class and poor do. Consider this:
Person A earned 30K in 2018. They rec'd a big raise in 2019, and earned 50K. What an improvement and the future looks bright, and they're also eligible for a COVID entitlement just cuz.
Person B earned 70K in 2019, so they're not eligible for a COVID entitlement.
Person C earns more on unemployment than they did working, and received $3K more income for the year 2019. Eligible for a COVID entitlement.
Person D only likes to work part-time @ $50 an hour. Eligible for a COVID entitlement.
All will pay principle & interest & more (e.g., inflation & higher taxes) for "entitlements" of which only three receive benefit.
Also, which of those four scenarios deserves a COVID entitlement and why?
OMG!!!!
You mean that Congress is NOT going to review the financial history of each and every American and have a separate debate and vote for each of us!!!
How ******* LAZY can Congress get!!!
You're PROG right? Yeah, I know you guys are deep thinkers, but I can come up with simple formulas without your input thanks, and hopefully those college indoctrinated or well-schooled can too.
Only an idiot would believe that they could come up with a simple formula that took into account the financial status of every American and was absolutely fair to everyone.
Oh yeah - you're a Trump supporter - no wonder you think you could do it.
Dude, it's not my fault you're PROG. I worked with lots of PROGS last profession, and they'd say the same thing too or depend on someone else to do it. We're talking simple variables and formulas, but you say only an idiot would think a person could figure it out, which is rich Richard.
I used to write system processing dumb shit, and I'm telling you it's easy as ****, ever heard of a computer & logic?
How much did Richard earn 2018-2019? Zero - STOP
If you 'programmers' were so good at what you do, we system administrators wouldn't be spending half our time fixing your shit.
Your attitude shows why so many applications need so many patches and upgrades - why there's a need for testing & UAT system before your work goes production.
You think you know everything about everything, but when it gets to the real world it craps out.
Computers only do simple things dumbass - but they do millions of simple things a second.
It's taken hundreds of thousands of programmers their entire careers to bring computer systems and applications to the current level of sophistication.
If you think you could write a program that could take into account the financial status of every American and was absolutely fair to everyone, you're out of your freakin' mind.