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| BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump unveils coronavirus bailout plan with payroll tax cut and help for hourly workers to be able to take time off sick as he admits being 'blindsided' after stock market plunge |
| 2020-03-10 |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #10 But not rent... Debt is subsidised. Madness |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2020-03-10 16:49 |
| #9 Seems designed to counter the fear mongering that is freaking Wall Street, but it has the benefit of not going away when the coronavirus is old news. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2020-03-10 13:59 |
| #8 Useful for hotel and restaurant employees that would be hit hardest by people staying home. Most "baiout" plans I am firmly against but this I could get behind. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2020-03-10 09:31 |
| #7 Italy suspends MORTGAGE payments in the wake of coronavirus outbreak's economic impact on families and small businesses |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-03-10 09:31 |
| #6 Spanky, who shat in your Buckwheat? |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-03-10 09:03 |
| #5 ^well theres some big picture thinking... |
| Posted by: Ebboluns Shong6204 2020-03-10 08:45 |
| #4 If nobody or 95 percent .of the populous cannot work what good is a tax cut? New York city gets shut down oh look Beth I am going to get an extra fifty dollar child care credit on my taxes ! Someone needs to find some real adults with common sense and functioning brain pans! Just watch one hundred billion dollars one thousand points and gone ! What will the banksters and their cronies get today watch the money print and points! |
| Posted by: Spanky Bucket5946 2020-03-10 07:57 |
| #3 Remember you can think of payroll taxes as internal tariffs. So he's just made trade with fellow Americans slightly less unavoidable than trade with Chinese organisations. You can't have free trade AND income and sales taxes. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2020-03-10 04:02 |
| #2 Spengler 10 days ago. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-03-10 02:47 |
| #1 Payroll tax cut is perfect. Only kicks in when people are employed. No benefit to outsourcers, or offshoring, or private-equity slash 'n' burn grifters. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-03-10 02:41 |