Order of who should get Fed stimulus money:

[Yavin4]

1. Healthcare providers, supplies, and facilities.
2. Individuals and Families
3. State governments
4. Small businesses (mostly through 0% loans)
5. Necessary industries like airlines, autos (again, mostly through 0% loans)

Any stimulus money used for stock buy backs or bonuses means the CEO and executives go to jail.

[Ohioboy]

1. Seems like common sense to me

Who exactly is against this?

[Volaris]

13. CEOs and Executives lol.

[iluvtennis]

17. And the GOP thugs are against the priorities listed. nt

[Mr.Bill]

23. They're not against them,

they just prioritize them in the reverse order.

[iluvtennis]

24. LOL, I agree. nt

[DENVERPOPS]

30. How about the Asshole

Republican Politicians that GAVE THEM THE BAIL OUT MONEY????????

Don't treat the symptom, treat the cause.........

[Volaris]

32. Hopefully, their 'treatment' is coming in nov.

[quakerboy]

29. Republicans

And anyone who's donations from those who dont benefit by this priority order are high enough.

[Newest Reality]

2. Sounds right.

We have a voice in this? Somebody would represent us all in those choices even if we demanded them just as you proposed?

What, do you think this is a Constitutional Democracy or something?

Flip that upside down and consider the first two rather expendable. Right now, number five is looking like what is most important to the GO-Pee. We have Captains of Industry to protect and protect them we will. The worthy are worth their worth and get what we paid the taxes for.

I do think the current approach may kindle a lot of ire among us useless eaters, rif-raff and unwashed masses, etc. Protests and grumbling will increase as the inconveniences and stress of this begin to mount. When the initial shock starts to pass the water will start to boil over due to the heat.

[getagrip_already]

3. add one more...

NO Money to any company whose principals either work for or are connected by close family to the government.

[DENVERPOPS]

33. That knocks out two

that I can think of........The secretary of something that Trump appointed after 20 years as a Boeing executive, and the Senator Kelly whatever who, on insider info cleared tens of millions out of her and her husbands stock market holdings, before any one in the public was told of the impending pandemic......AND her husband in chairman of the NYSE......go figure....

[getagrip_already]

35. I was aiming it at trump inc, but you are correct, there is a lot of conflict of interest n/t

Th

[DENVERPOPS]

36. The Infamous Trump Inc

doesn't last for one NY second if it weren't for all of the other Republicans surrounding him. Trump is a psychopathic Narcissist, who is nothing but a front man for the Republican's Manifesto. The Republicans keep him around to purely distract the media, each and every hour of every day, while in the shadows they steamroll the middle class and Democrats in order to establish the........ Corporate Fascist Tyranny that they have been working towards for over forty years.

THEY VIRUS HAS GIVEN THE AMERICAN CITIZENS A PERFECT VIEW OF THEIR INADEQUACY AND INCOMPETENCE. AND THEIR EXECUTION OF THEIR OVERALL PLAN BY THEIR ACTIONS/INACTIONS....

HEY PEOPLE, WAKE THE FUCK UP............

[Igel]

4. Do what worked the first time.

No fuss, no arguing, no pain, no grandstanding.

It's not a gift, it's a loan.

You pay it back at 5% interest per year, pay back is before dividends.

Given the severity of the situation, maybe make the first year interest free, but have a supermajority vote to make it "one size fits all" to avoid party favoritism later. The "I like this industry, so we'll extend it's interest-free loan for forever" kinds of crap.

It was paid back. Quickly.

It was right after an election, so while there was moralizing and preaching, it was low key and not grand-standing.

Healthcare providers have a separate bill. You can pay individuals all you want, if their employers are bankrupt, they're screwed. You don't to draw down capital--you can look at lots of countries that did that, all priding themselves on their social justice. The gini coefficient was truly lowered, in that almost everybody was living in poverty. Not the fake poverty claimed for much of the middle class, or the quasi-poverty of much of the American bottom 30%. But poverty where a big chunk of the population not only was worried they wouldn't have enough to eat a few days out of the year, but didn't have enough to eat a few days of out most weeks.

0% loans make the money free. Have a grace period, but do not make it free beyond that. And require a serious number of votes to extend the grace period, and it's extended for all, not just some. "Do you need $1 million, is that enough?" (Thinks it's enough, but $2 million is better--and free.) "No, I need at least $3 million.

People heard Reich's (or whoever's) comment that airlines used 96% of their free cash flow to buy back stocks, and like the idiot host on an NPR show heard (the host said) "profit." Because dictionaries are a Boomer thing, I guess, whoever much they may reduce the level of misinformation and falsehoods. Free cash flow isn't profit, but the lack of intelligence and intellectual curiosity didn't lead them to ask, and their lack of intellectual humility didn't cause them to think they might be wrong in their leap of ignorance.

[Turin_C3PO]

15. The GOP

is trying to pull off a robbery of the Treasury in broad daylight. Shameful but not surprising.

[roamer65]

5. With infinite QE, there should be no fiscal stimulus money for corporations.

Make them issue bonds that will be bought by the Federal Reserve.

[Bluethroughu]

6. Seems pretty easy.

We tried trickle down last time 12 years ago, and we got more trickle up, out of the pockets of middle and poor incomes.

Give the people their money, they've spent the last 40 years building the backbone of this country while sacrificing retirements, benefits, wages and quality of life for CEOs and corporations to run away with pay while performing poorly.

"We want our money, and we need it now", says the 99.9%

[Yavin4]

9. The rise of authoritarians around the world was tied to the financial crisis.

Esp. when the relief money went to the banks instead of individuals.

[Bluethroughu]

12. tRump wants to be Mussolini

Well history tells us that didn't end well for him. He might want to rethink emulating him, and move over to the other side and learn something from Roosevelt.

[DENVERPOPS]

37. we can only wish

he turns into Mussolini....LOL.......my father had a treasured snapshot he took of Mussolini and his Mistress hanging upside down by their feet.......

[Midnight Writer]

7. You're leaving out the poor New York real estate moguls. After all their sacrifice.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Put healthcare workers at #2. They have extra expenses w no daycare & long hours. . . . nt

[Yavin4]

10. I already put them at No. 1. n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. thx

[JCMach1]

14. 6. Companies that used tax breaks since 2016 for stock buybacks and dividends

Should issue that amount of stock at today's price and turn it over to the Fed to take part in the loan program. Essentially a cash for stock swap.

[Locrian]

38. I like that idea - n/t

[mysteryowl]

16. It is called common sense!

For the GOP to be against this priority list, spells
C-O-R-R-U-P-T-I-O-N
&
A-M-O-R-A-L.

[Amishman]

18. Seems about right except small businesses are going to need more than loans

Loans just mean they implode slightly later. Small businesses don't have the capital to ride out the post quarantine recession AND debt payments from the loans to survive the shutdown

[Yavin4]

19. The loans will be at 0% and given item 2...

they should be able to rebound more quickly as consumers start spending.

[Amishman]

20. Still have to make the principal payments

And anyone who believes there won't be a hard recession after this is a orange faced idiot

[paleotn]

31. Sliding scale of grants to zero interest loans...

with long payback periods to interest loans with specific previsions on how the money can and cannot be used. All based on financial data over the last 12 to 24 months.

- If you're a small business with limited capital, you get a grant. Nothing to pay back.

- If you're a medium sized business with some capital reserves and a reasonable expectation of future growth, you get a zero interest loan. Term of the loan slides on the same scale.

- If you're a major corporation, with billions upon billions in cash stashed offshore, sure...we'll loan you money to tied you over, but at interest, and with iron clad provisions....no layoffs and Uncle Sam is last money in and the first money out. Dividends and other creditors will have to wait.

[Amishman]

34. This sounds excellent

And needed. Lots of restaurants, clubs, and other entertainment options will go under otherwise.

[Pillow talk]

21. last on that list ( meaning they get nothing) is the cruise line industry. they employ

a tiny % of Americans and flag their ships outside the mainland to avoid taxes

[Yavin4]

26. The cruise line industry may never come back after this.

People will avoid being locked into a densely populated, isolated vessel going forward.

You'll probably have more select, luxury cruise lines with fewer people.

[Pillow talk]

28. the cruise experience is pretty awesome. I'm sure they'll be fine without a bailout.

its like brave new world. Tourism has its eternal niche among the less than rich.

[warmfeet]

22. I like it.

[softydog88]

25. Thanks for the words of wisdom.

I agree right down the line.

[ancianita]

27. Lose #5 and I'd agree. It's not stimulus. It's rescue funding for a global pandemic.