{"id":34144,"date":"2020-07-25T03:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/another-covid-19-stimulus-bill-without-rhyme-or-reason\/"},"modified":"2020-07-25T03:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T00:30:00","slug":"another-covid-19-stimulus-bill-without-rhyme-or-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/another-covid-19-stimulus-bill-without-rhyme-or-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"#Another COVID-19 \u2018stimulus\u2019 bill without rhyme or reason"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Another COVID-19 \u2018stimulus\u2019 bill without rhyme or reason<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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July 24, 2020 |<\/span> 8:30pm <\/p>\n

\n Congress is getting set to OK another trillion or three in spending sort of related to the pandemic, with not a lot more rhyme or reason than in prior rounds.<\/p>\n

These are routinely called \u201cstimulus\u201d bills, even though much of the spending is more like \u201clife support\u201d for an economy dramatically slowed by lockdowns and deep uncertainty about even the near future. That includes cash for Americans thrown out of work \u2014 which is relief money. The Paycheck Protection Program, meanwhile, bribes businesses to keep on employees they\u2019d otherwise lay off \u2014 in hopes those companies and workers will be able to move back to business as usual . . . soon?<\/p>\n

In that light, it\u2019s just as well that payroll tax cuts are off the table: People getting paychecks don\u2019t need help and wouldn\u2019t do anything entrepreneurial with any windfall.<\/p>\n

Yet relief shouldn\u2019t pay better than actually working: Republicans are plainly right to object to extending those $600 \u201cbonus\u201d unemployment checks and insist that Uncle Sam aim to replace no more than 70 percent of anyone\u2019s working income. Reopening businesses shouldn\u2019t have to outbid what \u201cunemployment insurance\u201d pays.<\/p>\n

Democrats, meanwhile, are eager to toss hundreds of billions at state and local governments \u2014 holding their employees harmless even as the private sector hemorrhages jobs. Question: How much of the $100-plus billion to help schools reopen will go to areas where schools won\u2019t be reopening?<\/p>\n

It really shouldn\u2019t be too much to ask government-to-government aid to focus on clear need involving vital services. New York\u2019s MTA fits the bill; mass-transit projects in most of the rest of the country don\u2019t, because so few people depend on them.<\/p>\n

Similarly, the billions being tossed at coronavirus \u201ctesting\u201d belie the fact that billions dedicated to tests in past \u201cstimulus\u201d packages still remain unspent. Given the national delays in getting tests back, maybe the cash should be going for new laboratories, instead?<\/p>\n

Even in an election year, Congress should at least try to look at \u201cemergency\u201d spending to see if makes any sense.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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