US congressional leaders have reached agreement on COVID stimulus bill (UPDATE: signed into law)

[The Catboy]

You think $600 or even $2000 is a 'way to survive?' Handouts aren't a way to survive, they're a way to keep the serfs placated. Dropping all the lockdown rules, opening up the economy and letting people have the freedom to assume or avoid risk at their own discretion is a 'way to survive.'

You know the $600 stimulus payments only accounts for about 10% of the money being borrowed, right? Even if they bump it to $2000, it'd still be under 20% of the total. The relief bill, if one should be passed at all, should be direct payments to the people of the USA and nothing else. That would accomplish the task of helping those in need, and stimulating the economy. Corporations should get their compensation by getting peoples' business, not by kissing the government's ass. If they kept it limited to direct payments to individuals, i.e. no corporate welfare, no funding projects full of kickbacks, no $25 million to Pakistan for gender studies, no $700 million to Sudan, and etc., they could be giving every single person at least $10k for the same total cost. Instead, they're covering up the biggest grift in history by dangling a $600 morsel in our faces and teasing with it.

A 600$ or even 2000$ stimulus isn’t going to help. A universal income, waving mortgages/rent, and giving a shit about the people to keep them properly quarantined is what the country needs.

 

[Subtle Demise]

Update: Millions of people who used an intermediary bank to subtract filing fees from their tax refunds are getting their payments delayed by days, possibly for months, even if their first stimulus payment went through without issue. Some companies, like H&R Block and the bank they use are passing the payments on to their customers in an expedited manner, others like Taxslayer and their bank Santa Barbara Tax Group are opting to simply return the payments to the IRS instead of helping their paying customers, who now have to hope they receive their paper checks or debit cards by the 15th or else be forced to claim the funds on their tax return and possibly not see any relief until March or April.

Guess which group I am lucky enough to be in.