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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
What happens if payments go from $600 to $2,000?
We put $4000 in the bank instead of $1200.
They are way too late with the stimulus. For it to be a stimulus it should go to people who will spend it. Congress had 6 months to craft a sensible stimulus bill, and punted.
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I agree. Things are so concentrated bad in certain industries and demographics, and so perfectly fine in many others, that they need to focus financial help on the small businesses that are about to fail, the people who are going to food banks for the first time in their lives, the renters who haven’t been able to pay and the small landlords who haven’t been paid in six months. Throwing money at people who don’t need it and don’t have a whole lot of propensity or even opportunity to spend it is a waste. I get that some think it’s “fairer” if everyone gets the money, but is it so hard to understand that some people have been hammered much worse by the pandemic than everyone else - like, the government literally shut down their business or their job, through no fault of their own? When a natural disaster brings aid to one area, people unaffected by the flood or earthquake or wildfire shouldn’t complain that they’re not getting aid. I’m not sitting here griping that I’m not getting money, I’m thankful that I don’t need it and hoping that those who do get enough to keep them housed and fed.