Good call. Finding more details. It is pro-rated beyond that up to $99k for individuals and $198k for couples without children. It goes by adjusted gross income by the way.
Which is great. That money should be going to people that need the help with groceries, rent, etc. My wife and I will survive without $1200, but I know a lot of people that are going to struggle. #humblebrag.
Yeah I'm along the same lines. I'm happy everyone is getting money when they need it. Doesn't impact me directly so I don't really care. Wife and I were just gonna re-purpose it as economic stimulus of our own if we got it. Some of closest friends and family though could really, really use it right now.
It's sad, but there are always people that will abuse any and everything. The local news just had a story about a guy that bought a house in Spokane. It has squatters in it and he can't evict them due to a ban on evictions because of the virus. They've piled the backyard full of garbage, including human shit. God only knows what they've done to the inside of the house. The place has a pretty long string in the past 6 months of police being called, making it a nuisance house. And there's not a damn thing the owner can do.
For a few hundreds bucks your friends at the Hells Angels are happy to carry out a prompt eviction for you, and usually aren’t met with much resistance.
I’m serious. They will do zero yard/custodial work but the problem people are gone and they will stay gone. Squatters are anti-citizens who should have been a load down the shower drain. They are thieves, vandals, bullies and losers all rolled up into one useless package. I concur with Pimptress on fire. Nuke them from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.
If I've learned anything about squatters from endless posts on r/legaladvice, it's that the law cannot help you and your best bet is to terrorize them off your property extra-judicially.
One real concern is the lack of "depth" on both parties at the executive level. I think the Coronavirus will fundamentally shift American politics for the foreseeable future. My question: Remove Bernie, Biden from the 2024 picture. Who is even capable of running? Remove Trump from the same picture. What do the Republicans have on the bench? My point here is that I predict the electorate to swing back towards scientific governance, away from old white men, and I think we'll see the experience work against most of the up and coming figures in both parties (Cory Booker & Jeb Bush for example).
There are plenty if your standard is "competent administrators." The problem is that we've turned our Presidential elections into these weird celebrity/messiah/ideological-avatar mash-up contests, and there aren't many of those around at any time. There are a lot of state Governors who would probably make fine Presidents: Inslee, Beshear, Cooper, Bullock, etc. On the Republican side Baker, Hogan and a few others probably wouldn't be too bad either. Same story in the Senate. Senators like Whitehouse, Brown, Wyden, Warner, Baldwin, etc. They're there, we just don't want them.
I would say Yang is pretty firmly back in the picture now. Though I'm having to pinch myself over the thought of scientific governance. How's that power of prayer working out for everyone?
I’ll let you know in a month after all this plays out if I agree with that. So far he is doing a decent job.
Right now the Republican Governor most on the ball about the virus is DeWine in Ohio, but before this Baker's record had been fairly solid.
People are losing their shit because he closed the daycares and are calling for his head. But that’s more of an expression of frustration than a meaningful criticism I think.