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Conservative has better idea than means testing the cash payments to households for the crisis. No, really.
Instead trying to figure out who to send a check to, send one to everyone and then call the money back on next year’s taxes. In Oren Cass’s proposal it would be 70 percent or 100 percent for people earning from about $200,000 to $500,000.
The rest of his proposal in the Atlantic is all about helping out corporations for the imposition of asking them to shut during a crisis. It is a idea only grifters and lobbyists could love without deep modifications. For starters, if businesses are to be supported they should be as means tested as individuals. Someone running a corner bakery is in need of support so they can stay in business, Starbucks not so much.
well…
what about sending the checks (should be bigger- more like 8-10k) and then next year for social security tax, double the maximum amount of taxable earnings to $265,400.
And lower the Medicare eligibility age to 62, with corresponding actuarially neutral Medicare premium for those who enroll prior to age 65.
Sounds good.
MADCO – you are obviously not just another pretty face. Maybe you could help #BenKuck manage his thoughts through this crisis?
… can you imagine Ken Buck with true cynicism and sarcastic bite?
smh
Please tell me you wear cowboy boots.
I ain't no trucker or poser congressman
I wear sneakers and ball caps.
I like it.
Anyone actively pointing out that Sen. Gardner could use some of the time saved by not going into the office or hanging around in the Senate champber for a virtual public forum?
I'm sure he will announce later, after , all the virtual public appearances he had.
First confirmed case in Yuma County. (Gardner doesn't count. He's busy draining the swamp). It just got real to all those Dr. Limbaugh listeners out east.
I listened to a Facebook Live Q&A on the virus yesterday produced by the Fremont County public health agency. Fremont, a county of about 48,000 people in south central Colorado, is run by the Republican Party. They no longer elect any Democrats, as far as I know.
Here's the (sad) numbers they revealed yesterday: Only 6 people had been tested with no results back yet. The only testing was being done by the hospital in Cañon City and they were only testing people sick enough to be admitted. The public health office has zero test kits, but they've been "ordered." And apparently little (if anything) was being done to put social distancing in place, beyond what's been ordered by the Governor.
Shocking.
Fremont has no C19 cases. It shows a zero in the state data.
Do they allow D's in Fremont county?
They have "no" cases because they've tested only 6 people with no results back yet.
They barely allow D's there . . .
For a country that supposedly disfavors socialism a lot of Americans are definitely looking to government for solutions, not for profit industry.
We need respirators, government.
We need air traffic control.
We need schools and libraries and roads and shipping depots… well, ports for the boats and dtransfer stations for the trains and trucks
I want an iPad with lidar , and an eight foot tall fence – get out of the way, government.
Suddenly government isn't the ogre trying to steal your money. It's what's going to save us from a Mad Max world. I'm OK with the change in attitude but government has to get it done and with Trump at the helm the jury is still out on this one.
TO CONSERVE IS CONSERVATIVE
Recently received my 2019 report from XCEL Energy's Windsource program. I purchased 3,848 kilowatt hours of wind power, which is equivalent to 5.2 hours of a two megawatt wind turbine operating at capacity.
By getting my electricity from wind power, I avoided 4,017 pounds of CO-2 being released, which is equivalent to 4,570 miles driven in a car.
Dood!
That is clearly fake because all the CO utilities (some more than others) said it couldn't be done
Good job Banger. I belong to a rural co-op but will look to see if they have this kind of a program.
Tulsi drops out. Endorses Biden . . .
. . . “strange days indeed”.
https://youtu.be/cuuhsqA95iA
Whaaaat? We are indeed in the end times.
All is not lost . . .
A good, positive article.
No snark (— from him?) . . . strange days, indeed! Most peculiar, mama . . .
I am truly and happily surprised!
Does that mean her prior announcement about leaving the U.S. House of Reps is off? Sympathies to the people of Hawaii CD-2 if so, but it could have been far worse.
A week ago, I predicted that at the rate of 130% rise in identified cases of covid19 per day, we would be over 200 by the end of March. We’re at 216 coronavirus cases now in Colorado, per CDPHE.
Colorado implemented drive through testing earlier than most other states, and presumably those people testing positive are quarantined or hospitalized. So that’s good news in a way! although it makes our case numbers higherthan surrounding states.
On Maddow last night, Rachel Maddow examined the case of a town , Vo, in Italy, that tested aggressively, including asymptomatic folks, and isolated positive people. They have had no new CV19 deaths in Vo lately.
I love Vo.
Would go there now, if I could get the time off work. And stuff
I've been logging daily numbers from the COVID Tracking Project — average day over day number since I started on March 3 is 135%. If that rate keeps up, at the end of the month we will be close to 400,000 cases. Even if we rise at the LOWEST day over day rate (122%), US cases will be over 100,000.
You should check out my post yesterday under Perlmutter if you want to scare the bejeezus out of you.
I've not been a big fan of Rachel Maddow. But I have definitely noticed the high quality of her fact based reporting and interviews during the past few weeks.
So, I notice it has been almost 3 weeks since the OD held a Trumpworship event. South Carolina, it was. It seems to me it is taking its toll. Add to that, the Whitest House seems to be in serious turmoil, and I am guessing the Secret Service won't let him run away to that hotbed of deadly pestilence…Mar-a-Lago.
Heh,heh.
I generally avoid ppv.
But I would pay to see Trump/Kushner UFC
Orange V. White!
I know Kushner is younger, but I think the OD got a plan… throat punch maybe.
Funny how all these "low-skilled" labor jobs like stocking groceries and being a bank teller are suddenly the most important and valuable jobs in America.
It's almost as though the standard theory of labor isn't actually true, but merely an excuse.
Trump supporter in January: "my 401k is going through the roof! Best economy ever! MAGA!!"
Trump supporter on March 19: "would you like fries with your take-out order?"
Luck Family Reunion — with Willie Nelson, etc., etc., etc,
Country, Blues, Americana, Life . . .
Live streaming right now . . . (until 10:30 p.m. MST)
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Hell, yes, the show [will] go on! . . .
Bubble wrap this family.