(03-25-2020, 05:52 PM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote: People who make over 200k a year may have been laid off and have their own bill's to pay.

My government determined I am not worthy of financial relief based off my family's income, completely irrelevant to any damage COVID-19 may have caused to my finances.

A stimulus check is called a "stimulus check" for a reason, and any effort to pitch a one-time payment as some form of lasting relief is insane at best, lying at worst. Its purpose is to put money into the hands of consumers who wouldn't otherwise be spending right now in an effort to get them to do so, with a future President having to clean up the inflationary mess. Someone with over $200k in income is able to spend anyway unless they are really, really doing it wrong. Someone with $70K in income might be less willing to buy anything right now, and that's what a stimulus check is designed to encourage. What they spend it on is irrelevant. That they spend it is important to the government. Someone out of work has unemployment available to them.

If you're not happy, tell your Represntative, your Senators and anyone else in a position of power who had input into the stimulus parameters what you think of their work, and maybe the next payment (there will be at least one more) will have your name on a check.

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