Yet another series on yet another topic. ex-President AuH2O 2020 and Moscow Mitch are determined to crush wage earners under their boot heels even more than they already have. A populist, he says, with $300,000 initiation fee (boosted right after he 'won' the election) golf clubs. Right. Recall that ~$2 trillion tax cut that went almost entirely to Phat Cats? Well, they're back.
Moscow Mitch is leading the crusade to, at least, drastically reduce the supplemental $600/week Covid aid for the unemployed. The justification is that these are all layabouts who don't want to work. Ignoring the simple fact that many of these lower-middle class, blue collar businesses are direct service locations which are just too toxic to operate. We've seen what happened in the Dumb Red States that ran, lemming like (it's just a legend, but what the hell?), off the cliff by 're-opening' while infections were still stupid high. These are the states that are currently burning up with Covid, hitting and exceeding hospital beds in many small cities and counties, and really blowing out ICU support. Some of these hospitals have only single digit ICU support.
What the lovers of ex-President AuH2O 2020 and Moscow Mitch are too stupid to realize, so far, is that the supplemental is nation-wide and not modified by regional/state/MSA wage rates. In other obvious words: it's ex-President AuH2O 2020's very own zealots that are the ones making out by not working by a whole lot more than the unworthy Blue State bartenders.
Here's the data. Just click on the toggle for 'Median wage' low to high to see who gets the biggest boost. Yeah, Moscow Mitch, stick it to your base.
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