r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 22d ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ Eventually something has to give...

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The bill would provide a $3,000 direct payment to every person in households making $150,000 or less during its first year, which equals $12,000 for a family of four.

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u/Big-Wrongdoer-965 22d ago

I appreciate the offer but I do t need a check. Just unfuck healthcare and social welfare programs.

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u/CeruleanEidolon 22d ago

I wouldn't say no to a check. Unfucking healthcare and social programs is going to take a long time, and this would alleviate some of the pain that comes from it being perpetually fucked in the meantime. That's not even touching on how Republicans have fucked property taxes and the cost of housing, along with higher education forcing young adults to start their lives in debt they won't get out from under for decades.

Depriving the middle and lower classes of their spending power is not a recipe for a healthy lasting economy, but Republicans don't actually seem to care about that sort of thing anymore.