Question for Yertle and Senate Rs: please show us the pork in the Heroes Act

[stopbush]

Shown Here:
Introduced in House (05/12/2020)
Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act or the HEROES Act

This bill responds to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) outbreak and its impact on the economy, public health, state and local governments, individuals, and businesses.

Among other things, the bill:

- provides FY2020 emergency supplemental appropriations to federal agencies;
- provides payments and other assistance to state, local, tribal, and territorial governments;
- provides additional direct payments of up to $1,200 per individual;
- expands paid sick days, family and medical leave, unemployment compensation, nutrition and food assistance programs, housing assistance, and payments to farmers;
- modifies and expands the Paycheck Protection Program, which provides loans and grants to small businesses and nonprofit organizations;
- establishes a fund to award grants for employers to provide pandemic premium pay for essential workers;
- expands several tax credits and deductions;
- provides funding and establishes requirements for COVID-19 testing and contact tracing;
- eliminates cost-sharing for COVID-19 treatments;
- extends and expands the moratorium on certain evictions and foreclosures; and
requires employers to develop and implement infectious disease exposure control plans.

The bill also modifies or expands a wide range of other programs and policies, including those regarding:

Medicare and Medicaid,
health insurance,
broadband service,
medical product supplies,
immigration,
student loans and financial aid,
the federal workforce,
prisons,
veterans benefits,
consumer protection requirements,
the U.S. Postal Service,
federal elections,
aviation and railroad workers, and
pension and retirement plans.

Please tell us which parts of the bill are not worth funding. Please tell us who gets funding and who gets none in your bare-boned proposal. Please tell us how your proposed $500-billion in funding gets distributed to the various initiatives above (perhaps each individual gets $2 in direct payments, rather than the $1200 proposed in the House bill). Please tell us how the $2.5-trillion passed by the House would be overspending to cover all of the needs identified in the House bill.

[dutch777]

1. It's going to be terrible and get worse for the little guy and small business

Republicans will return (may have already) to their "block anything that costs money and helps the average Joe" (vs. helping the big corporate elite). We could have gotten out of the Great Recession faster had they not limited or blocked the additional relief $$$ that Obama and the Dems proposed early in his administration. But those funds were focused on main street not Wall Street and they would add to the deficit....so NO!

Of course as soon as Trump is in office and offers big business billions in corporate tax relief and gives the average American worker $75 a year in less taxes, adding $3 trillion or so to the deficit, that was good policy. And if anything smacks of helping states like NY, IL or others governed by Dems and deep in debt, admittedly some of it by poor management over years and decades, but much exacerbated by Covid and the Trump mismanagement thereof, that can't happen. Why we need to capture the Senate if there is to be any hope of righting this ship and actually making progress.

[stopbush]

2. Perhaps finances in NY would be better if they weren't a donor state,

sending $1800 more per capita per year in Fed taxes to DC than they get back from the Feds. That adds up when you’re home to 19-million people.

[modrepub]

3. Exactly

We need legislation that prevents states from getting more federal funding than they put in. If you don't like "socialism" then don't take other people's money.