Why don’t you go play with your toys while the grown-ups discuss the nuances of the United States? Some of us are concerned with what the country will look like under Joseph Biden, you’ll be fine in your Canadian playpen.
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You are making the classic mistake of assuming federal money works like your budget. It’s doesn’t. It’s not zero sum. There are essentially no limits on how much money the feds could dump into the system.
Edit. FYI this woman advises AOC and Bernie.
Xenophobia is always a solid debate point.
The solution is obviously giving money to every person and cancelling rent, something that has been brought up by a bunch of politicians and posted about on this forum many times. But the troll obviously knows this.
Who gives a shit about cancelling rent if the government is paying it! It’s just another mechanism to inject money into the system.
Your understanding of how the system works is so basic it can’t get over your bumper sticker mantras.
We are having a discussion. An interesting one I think. You just can’t identify it because you never engage in them.
Cats expertise is what I’m interested in.
The ideal solution is eviction should be cancelled until a vaccines and government should be paying rents as one mechanism to inject money into the system.
I can see why you might be confused because none of my responses contain erudite replies like “da fuq” and “lol”.
There is a tenant in an apartment who lost their job and has no money. The government has recognized that evicting tenants during this crisis would be immoral, so they passed a law preventing evictions until July.
Now the question of financial assistance related to housing comes up. The government has the choice of providing funds to landlords, funds to tenants, both, or neither. The government chooses to provide funds to landlords, but frames the program as one meant to provide relief to tenants. The relief being that their rent is paid up through July, for the period in which they already couldn’t be evicted. At which point they’re still broke and still getting evicted.
The program benefits some people who couldn’t afford rent for a few months but now can. And landlords need to wait until September 1 to file for eviction for July’s rent, so it provides an extra few weeks for tenants. But it leaves lots of tenants in the same position they would otherwise be in, while at the same time funneling cash to landlords rather than their tenants who are, by virtue of participating in the program, all out of work from Covid.
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That makes sense. As I said money should be going to both. In the end I don’t care about rent getting paid as long as people are not getting evicted.
The problem is congress believes in the balanced cheque book myth so they think they can only do one.
The government handing out money to landlords is at best trickle down economics and at worst simply a bailout to the parasitic class. Fuck that.
Only if that’s all they do.
You’ll have to tell me what you mean by that statement. Who’s they, and what is it that they do?
Best thread title on the forum.
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Huh
They did not have a years worth of savings¿
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See my post with the video. I’m saying if government only gives money to landlords I agree that is nonsense trickle down bs. If they give money to everyone, including landlords, I have no issue with that.
The part where they give money to landlords would still be trickle down nonsense regardless of where any other money goes.
Someone show me the Democrats proposal for giving money to everyone? Must have missed that one
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