FIRST, we are, for the first time, $27 Trillion in debt as a nation. We are broke, broker, brokest. WHY are we sending out more money? WHY is ANYONE sending out even more money that we don’t have?
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Again, I get that “Government broke it, it should pay for it.” But it was the States that shut down their economies, not Trump and not the Federal Government.
Trump Vows Immediate $1,200 Check To Americans If Speaker Moves Bill
Democrats and Republicans have been at loggerheads for months over another stimulus bill to help millions of Americans struggling financially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
But President Donald Trump has a plan to cut through all the red tape.
Move Fast, I Am Waiting To Sign! @SpeakerPelosi https://t.co/RYBeWWuPC2
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 7, 2020
Who voted for, and what legislation was passed and signed, that put the Government in charge of the economy???
The STATES and their respective elected representatives, the Governors, that shut their States down (except for SD Gov Kristi Noem but loyal readers knew that already). Let the States, out of their own rainy day funds, pay those that they injured.
There is no reason why anyone in Wyoming should be paying a penny to NH and no reason why anyone in NH should be paying anyone in NY a dime.
SECOND, did anyone else notice the REAL IMPORTANT thing that Trump tweeted? WHY did he even have to say it? WHY is it even “a thing”? To ask for a “Stand Alone Bill”? A bill solely targeting a single issue, a single need, a single [plug in what you want to plug in here]?
WHY do WE have to put up with chucklehead politicians that love kitchen sinks? Why is it that they ALWAYS have to pack everything into every bill such that Imperial Nancy’s words on Obamacare, “We have to pass the bill to see what’s in the bill” is, has been, and seemingly always will be, a constant? EVERY FREAKIN’ one of them. The US Constitution & Bill of Rights only amounts to 34 pages (depending on format). WHY always an omnibus bill that has tens, hundreds, or THOUSANDS of items in it?
One Bill – one item. Probably, one page, maybe two or three. Something that a normal layperson could read and understand without much difficulty. Why isn’t this the norm instead of something that has people, especially in the swamp of DC, raising their eyebrows and bugging out the eyeballs and trumpeting out “Tsk, tsk, tsk – that’s not how it is done around here”?
One bill – one issue. IF you agree that the Feds should send out checks (and right now, I don’t), it could read like this:
- Every American Citizen will receive a check for $1,200. Each of their dependents shall also receive a check for $1,200
- The Department of the Treasure, will issue the checks electronically and in hardcopy based on its current information for Citizens and dependents ASAP!
- For those that do not pay taxes, the IRS will set up a form that those people can fill in their information.
- The IRS will fully staff up to receive and deal with complaints that the checks have not arrived and remedy the problems called in.
Sure, there might be a few more things but I’m doing this off the top of my head. The points are:
- Get it written
- Get it written fast
- And legislators, not lobbyists or bureaucrats, should DO THE WORK OF WRITING LAW THAT WE ELECTED (and pay them) TO DO.
Going forward, this “limitation” should mitigate, to SOME degree, the bad stuff they can do to us that impinge on our Liberties because we can make the time to read one pagers – 24 million pagers like they’ve been doing for a while not at all. You can’t sneak much into a 1-3 page bill that isn’t going to be caught.
As far as the above is concerned, then do each issue all by itself. I’m quite sure that quite a few things might be passed but a lot of bad things (like bailing out states and local governments that have been mismanaging their budgets for decades) won’t.
(H/T: Daily Wire)
