My wife and I got only a partial payment in the first round due to our combined income, . . we gave most of it to her parents (who are retired and could use the money) and some of it to our local rescue mission. We will be fine without more "stimulus," though not approaching "rich." I'd much rather have more relaxed means testing that allows some folks who don't "need it to survive" get a few extra bucks than to squeeze harder on those who really do need the money. If we get checks this time around, we intend to give it away again. I know there are people who really desperately need help.
Good man. I did the same with my $1200, but kept my hands off my wife's share of our combined $2400 check, easy to do since we have separate accounts at our credit union. I gave some to our daughter, increased my gifts to charity and gave much bigger tips to those working at our local restaurants
Funny that you think the marginal number of federal government parasitic bureaucrats that have not been hired in the last four years has any impact on the treasury printers ability to print checks. The last time I checked the military was part of the federal government. If we are going to have a big bloated, corrupt, unmanageable federal government then we are going to have a big military as well. The military is part of the money game that makes politicians rich.
It wasnтАЩt the main takeaway. I agree with your other points. Just not that cutting, or not growing, what is already a bloated, corrupt, unmanageable federal government has any impact on its ability to cut checks or vet those that receive them.
Bigger doesnтАЩt equal better when it comes to bureaucrats. History has proven that the more money and people the worse government performs. It literally has no incentive or ability to work efficiently.
A friend who runs a small business took one look at the PPP "loans" and said NFW. Wait until you hear about how that gets treated - as taxable income for the business that still has to pay back the loan. It's a double-hit.
Your friend should have taken more than one look, or a longer one, because if the PPP money was used to pay workers and not laying them off, it was tax free, just like the $1200 stimulus checks were.
The DOD is at this point a wooden whitewashed elephant utterly infested by "streamlined, more effective" private contractors.
The funny thing is that the make-work govies still have health care and retirement benefits. The make-work contractors don't; sucks to be them.
Maybe the problem is the make-work?
My wife and I got only a partial payment in the first round due to our combined income, . . we gave most of it to her parents (who are retired and could use the money) and some of it to our local rescue mission. We will be fine without more "stimulus," though not approaching "rich." I'd much rather have more relaxed means testing that allows some folks who don't "need it to survive" get a few extra bucks than to squeeze harder on those who really do need the money. If we get checks this time around, we intend to give it away again. I know there are people who really desperately need help.
Good man. I did the same with my $1200, but kept my hands off my wife's share of our combined $2400 check, easy to do since we have separate accounts at our credit union. I gave some to our daughter, increased my gifts to charity and gave much bigger tips to those working at our local restaurants
Funny that you think the marginal number of federal government parasitic bureaucrats that have not been hired in the last four years has any impact on the treasury printers ability to print checks. The last time I checked the military was part of the federal government. If we are going to have a big bloated, corrupt, unmanageable federal government then we are going to have a big military as well. The military is part of the money game that makes politicians rich.
It wasnтАЩt the main takeaway. I agree with your other points. Just not that cutting, or not growing, what is already a bloated, corrupt, unmanageable federal government has any impact on its ability to cut checks or vet those that receive them.
Bigger doesnтАЩt equal better when it comes to bureaucrats. History has proven that the more money and people the worse government performs. It literally has no incentive or ability to work efficiently.
A friend who runs a small business took one look at the PPP "loans" and said NFW. Wait until you hear about how that gets treated - as taxable income for the business that still has to pay back the loan. It's a double-hit.
Your friend should have taken more than one look, or a longer one, because if the PPP money was used to pay workers and not laying them off, it was tax free, just like the $1200 stimulus checks were.