definitely where you and I diverge and why you're a hard-and-fast GOP guy and I'm a Conservative Libertarian.
government should never be picking winners and losers in business. by demanding the country shut down, that's exactly what they've done. by providing stimulus to a very small % of businesses, that's what they've done. by allowing big companies, like Boeing and Apple, who have artificially improved their investment profile through massive stock buy-back programs and allowing you and I to lose thousands in stock investments they have decided (again) that poorly run companies deserve our tax money...that's what they've done
this $2T will barely be a blip for the 90% of companies of 1-20 people and will only help the 47% of Americans that work for employers of 500+. That's picking winners and losers.
successful small biz owners that just lost the majority of their customers overnight won't see that $1200 check, nor would it even make a dent in their lives. basically, for adding $2T in debt, the least successful americans got a month of rent and food paid for while horribly run companies like Boeing are getting tens of billions of dollars.
it was bullshit government overreach by Obama in 2009 and bullshit government overreach by Trump in 2020. Obama had plenty of Solyndra's and GM's on his record 10 years ago and Trump will have plenty on his hands 10 years from now. Again we're handing over tax money to companies that simply don't deserve it. what you call a safety net I call chasing bad money with good money
and, johnny, i'd love to have a check to burn but I don't deserve one because i'm not a loser making <75k
