Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac together backstop about $5 trillion of home loans – about half of the U.S. housing marketAhttps://t.co/UuronOsrFh
— Intl. Business Times (@IBTimes) March 19, 2020
GOP bill on immediate checks:
— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) March 19, 2020
— $1,200 per person ($2,400 if filing jointly)
— $500 per kid
— Begins to phase out above $75K
— Phases out completely above $99K
— Much smaller benefit, of $600, for millions w/o federal tax liability pic.twitter.com/mPggn8eepS
If the state or federal government orders it’s workers to stay home from work, then the government should be required to send each of those laid off workers a weekly paycheck until the stop-work order is lifted.
Every business that the government forces to shut down should be made whole financially while they remain closed.
We should immediately nationalize the airplane industry, with the exception of cargo haulers, the oil and gas industry, and the health care industry.
Those are the minimum necessary steps to take don’t you agree Governor Newsom?