Shut everything down for 3 to 4 week and send every adult American a check for $3000.00

[Yavin4]

That would do more to slow the virus spread and save the economy at the same time.

Next, get the fucking test kits out there now. Finally, start setting up regional sites for taking care of the sick.

[jimfields33]

1. That would be awesome!!!!

That would help so much for everyone.

[CountAllVotes]

3. Agree

I've been having to buy things online (at inflated prices no doubt!).

This is difficult when trying to get by on the $900 a month I receive from SSDI.



I've spent a few hundred $ in the past couple of weeks, that I normally would have never spent.

I'm getting short on food and will be out by next week and I am afraid to go to the store.

So, yes, $3K would really help a lot right now!

Thanks for posting this.

& recommend.

[GemDigger]

15. A lot of grocery stores are now doing the picking and delivering for you.

That way the risk for you will be much lower.

[CountAllVotes]

30. I doubt the Grocery Outlet delivers

Low income folks can't afford to shop at Safeway.

Credit card here it comes!

[GemDigger]

47. It's better than covid and that was your fear. Your call, it was just a suggestion.

[CountAllVotes]

56. I don't know who delivers food where I am located

Rural communities tend to be this way like it or not.

Thanks for the idea btw!

I appreciate it!

[GemDigger]

49. Amazon is cheaper than Safeway?

I have never done Amazon. I am a low income person and Amazon is out of my league.

[CountAllVotes]

54. I don't know

I've never bought food from amazon.
I'll see what I can find out!
Thanks!

[demosincebirth]

67. Amazon owns Whole Foods. I would shop thru Amazon, but Whole Foods is non union

I stick with Safeway or Lucky stores, they deliver.

[totodeinhere]

61. I'm not sure if I could trust them to follow proper hygiene when handling the food I ordered.

It would probably be safer than going to the store though.

[standingtall]

68. I doubt most Grocery stores are actually doing the deliveries themselves

their probably contracting through 3rd party apps and having gig workers deliver it for them. What happens if they get sick? Independent contractors don't get sick leave.

[GemDigger]

70. We aren't talking about sick leave we are talking about fear and going to the store.

[standingtall]

72. fear of getting the corona virus

The point is people who don't get sick leave have no other source of income. So they may work even when their sick making it easier to spread the virus and even if they chose not to work when sick. Grocery stores would not have the manpower to accommodate delivering on a national scale.

[Kaiserguy]

4. Would be nice

However the Republicans will be sending check out but only to the 1%

[Windy City Charlie]

8. I've already one person suggest that

I talked to a person who thinks the right way to handle something like this to cut out the bureaucracy is to have the corporations and business apply for money and leave it up to them to disperse it to their employees. I told him most of the corporations would pocket all that money and the employees would never see it.

[GemDigger]

16. And it will take a year for them to figure out how to get it out to the people.

Then it will take another chunk of time to figure out who gets what. By then it will be too late when people will be needing it in the next couple of weeks.

[Mosby]

33. They did it with those stimulus checks on '08.

Took about 6 months to get the checks issued though.

[GemDigger]

45. My point is that people will need it in a few weeks to have enough for food and medical supplies.

Not 6 months from now when people will be facing foreclosures on their homes and their cars being repossessed.

[RussBLib]

5. it would just KILL the GOP to give (even the poor) people money

Hey, whatever happened to shrinking the government small enough to drown it in a bathtub? Don't hear much about that anymore.

[pat_k]

18. True. And tragic, since boosting income of poor is the best way to stimulate the economy.

The idiots hellbent on cutting social safety nets are accomplishing the opposite of what they claim. They are damaging the economy.

.. the poor and the middle class tend to consume a higher fraction of their income than the rich. If more money flows to these segments of society, they will consume rather than save, raising demand and spurring aggregate growth in the short run. What this means is that the poor and the middle class are key engines of growth. But with inequality on the rise, those engines are stalling.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/06/how-boosting-the-income-of-the-poor-spurs-growth/

[Windy City Charlie]

19. That's why it'll never happen

Instead of giving it to the poor, they'll give the money to people who don't need it anymore and won't spend it. You know, that "trickle-down" effect?

[cannabis_flower]

46. Especially

The poor people!

[Hortensis]

6. So simple. Even simpler would have been electing Democrats

in 2016. It would have been nice to see the systems we'd developed to deal with these situations tried out. Including the CDC, which was established during the Democratic Truman administration to identify and stop epidemics where they start so they never get here. And did a damned good job for over 7 decades, before today's predatory Republicans got power.

[Yavin4]

7. $3000 won't get you that much in NYC, but every bit helps.

A trip to NYC may sound extravagant, but there are middle and working class people that are employed by the airlines, hotels, and Broadway shows. You would be helping them out a lot.

[Hortensis]

12. Yeah, and I missed the kicker about shutting down, darn it.

Sheltering at home is already sounding less than conducive to happy fantasies.

So I deleted and was able to come up with another -- that our nation was functioning as it did before 2016. The Republicans were already dismantling and destroying, and accelerated big time in the 1990s through then, but even so our resilience made it a long slog for them.

[durablend]

9. Never happen

The Fox News freaks would be SCREAMING

[Windy City Charlie]

11. Yet

Those freaks would be the first ones with their hands out waiting for their $3000. As long as they get theirs, they say hell to everyone else.

[ToxMarz]

40. And they wouldn't stay home cause they want to believe it's a hox

They'd just go out and spend their $3000 and continue the spread.

[Yavin4]

13. Do they not understand that no business is being transacted?

No one will be spending money for the next few weeks, and that alone will sink the economy. Do they not understand this?

[Strelnikov_]

21. And the longer the peak lasts, the more the economy sinks

We need to replicate, as much as we can, what China did.

They are coming back online, intact.

[Nay]

44. And the more the economy sinks, the easier it is for the rich to buy up everything at

10 cents on the dollar. Including people and governments.

[quakerboy]

43. Understand, maybe. Care? No

Except insofar as it might make them look bad so it must be hidden as much as possible.

[KPN]

10. Andrew Yang is that you?

Excellent idea -- but make it $4,500.

[Windy City Charlie]

14. The catch to that would be....

It probably wouldn't end up being very fair on how people would end up getting taxed on that $3,000

[tinrobot]

17. Not a bad idea, actually.

It would cost less than a billion to cut the checks. They've already approved eight billion.

[stopbush]

23. Er, I think your math is way off.

209,000,000 adults in the USA

give each one of them $3000 =

$627-billion

[CountAllVotes]

32. $500 billion was dumped into Wall Street the other day

and it crashed the next day.

Gambling causes losses, in this case loss of lives!

FUCK WALL STREET!

[stopbush]

37. What does that have to do with my post besides nothing?

[CountAllVotes]

57. They say they cannot afford it

But they have all this money for Wall Street as needed.

The point is that if they don't have any money to help the people, then why are they able to give so much to Wall Street as needed?

[stopbush]

60. I responded to a post that underestimated the cost of giving $3000 to every adult in the country

by a factor of 627. There was nothing in my post about whether giving people $3000 was a good thing to do or a bad thing to do.

[CountAllVotes]

62. I think it is a GOOD idea

They need to do this ASAP!

[Strelnikov_]

20. Agree, except grocery stores, pharmacies, 'Hardware' stores exemped within guidelines

And only one person allowed in, unless assisting another.

And mobilize delivery squads to minimize need for said trips.

[RussBLib]

22. I've been using Amazon a LOT lately

I'm sure I'm not the only one.

Fortunately we have such a service as Amazon in this era. 40 years ago? No Amazon. No fucking internet.

[progressoid]

31. That might become a problem too.

Amazon is prepping for the possibility of having to shut down some of their enormous warehouses. Lots of sweaty people in one building is a recipe for disaster.

[CountAllVotes]

59. Before the figured out what AIDS was ...

Every time a co-worker called in sick, esp. if it was a man, every one wondered if it was AIDS.

No one came right out and said it, they didn't need to.

This was in 1979 before it even had the name AIDS.

It was a scary time to live though. I worked in for a group of surgeons that ran in and out of the office often with splatters of blood to be seen as it was directly across the hall from the blood gas room where we had to go to make coffee for the doctors coming out of the OR all day!

[gopiscrap]

24. yes

[lostnfound]

25. Instead, cut taxes for the 1% and they will trickle it down...

Hahaha.
They can use it to build more doomsday hideouts and yachts.

[Newest Reality]

26. Oh,

They do that in the alternate Universe where things actually make sense, people are reasonable about things and human suffering is not acceptable.

I am sorry, but we somehow managed to be in the one that is really messed up and doesn't cater to humans so much. A check to industry is what is done in this timeline.

[lapfog_1]

27. been saying this here for 2 weeks.

only we don't have to send everyone a check for $3000... just $1000...

Because with my plan... everything stops... payments and collections... the stock market, profit and loss, everything.

The 30 days simply don't exist.

The $1000 is to pay delivery people to bring you food.

There are lots of details.

Cost A TON less than what the stock market crash just cost us.

[brokephibroke]

28. Pot shops and liquor stores will sell out

But you have a good plan, way better than a payroll tax holiday.

[Yavin4]

29. Good. Working class people make/sell liquor and pot.

In turn, they will pay their rent/mortgages and other bills, and in turn that money will go to pay other working class people. And all along the way, these people are spending and paying taxes.

Ultimately, the government gets their money back.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

34. Cost: 1 Trillion dollars. Oh, wait, that's what he gave the 1% in the tax giveaway. . . . nt

[Yavin4]

36. Well, lookie there. Reverse the tax cut to pay for it. n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

39. +1 . . . nt

[Mr.Bill]

35. I'm good with any plan

that keeps the liquor stores open.

[ooky]

38. I would support sending money for the people who need replacement income, or income for

really any good reason, i.e., if schools shut down and kids aren't getting food that they normally get at school, they need money for food. To that point it's a great idea.

But I would also want to do it responsibly. Sending me money, for example, would not make sense, as I am retired, and live off a combination of my retirement account, plus social security - so I am not out of any income due to the virus. Also, there should be some sort of cut off so we aren't sending money to the wealthy.

[Yavin4]

42. Picking and choosing who gets the money wastes time

If you don't need it, donate it.

[ooky]

48. You don't have to waste time.

An income tax adjustment can be made later if need be.

[Yavin4]

52. Again, not enough time.

Get the money out to people now.

[ooky]

53. How

would tax adjustments later keep it from going out now? How are you planning on getting the money to the people?

[Yavin4]

58. The same way you get tax refunds

Send an ATM card, check, or direct deposit into a bank account.

[progressoid]

41. The fed spent 1.5T to prop up Wallstreet. They could have sent every adult in the US $5000

And still had a half trillion left over.

[Initech]

50. But how are we supposed to work or live?

[durablend]

71. "Not mah problem"

"Not payin for you god hating libs to loaf around on the sofa with MAH hard erned tax money" /MAGAt

[Initech]

73. We really need to tell the MAGAs and Fox Bots that playtime is over.

[world wide wally]

51. These assholes won't even send out food stamps.

No way they are going to send out checks to everyone.

[relayerbob]

55. Cheaper than baining out wall St

$1.5T gone in about 45 minutes

[Luciferous]

63. Sounds good to me! Just found out my school is closed for 4 weeks...

[uponit7771]

64. K&R

[Whiskeytide]

65. I like the idea generally - but ...

... if other countries fail to do the same, we will have another outbreak soon after we return from the hiatus. It would help flatten the curve to reduce strain on our healthcare system, but this is a global problem that needs global solutions and cooperations.

Too bad shitstain has pissed off most of the rest of the world. It might be nice to have friends right now.

[rockfordfile]

66. Trump should resign.

[IronLionZion]

69. Or they can give trillions to big banks and corporations

and give some extra special stimulus to Trump's hotels.

They'll pay for it by cutting funding for CDC and public health