Thursday, April 02, 2020

Three (Four?) Things We Need Immediately, Economically Speaking

We really need these, to prevent an economic collapse:

  • $2,000/month payment for each adult
  • Moratorium on mortgage payments for...I dunno, six months?
  • Moratorium on rent payments for the same amount of time
People can opt out if they don't need or want this. (I'm working, and I have a good income plus savings and would refuse all of the above.)

I would add universal health care, but that's such an enormous issue...however, it's obscene that Trump refused to re-open the ACA exchanges so that people whose health insurance depends on their jobs can get insurance easily. I mean, 10 million people filed for unemployment in the last two weeks.

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