40% of Americans could not handle a $400 unexpected expenditure. With what is happening now, for millions of Americans that day just arrived. We need immediate economic relief straight into the hands of people and we need it now.

Mar 16, 2020 · 5:12 AM UTC

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Tulsi Gabbard has proposed a bill, and there has also been one proposed by Ro Khanna and Tim Ryan. I haven’t researched them deeply enough to know which one I think is best.
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The 1.5 trillion $ could give adult Americans (18 years +) $2500 for this month and next month. The remaining 231 billion $ could cover COVID-19 testing kits, provide SNAP benefit expansion to all Americans (not just low-wage earners), and offer rent/mortgage assistance.
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I outlined everything in my previous tweet here:
Joe Nice @joenicedj
16 Mar 2020
1.5 trillion dollars could have been used to give every adult American (18 years and older) $2500 for the next two months. Total US population ≥ 18 years of age is 253,768,092. $2500 * 253,768,092 = $634,420,230,000. That $634 billion is the cost of a one-month payment.
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In America, we only do quantitative easing for banks and corporations. Of course, with tax revenue from the very people being ignored. This. Can’t. Continue.
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#BailoutThePeople
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You're over-reacting, Marianne. Many of those who can't handle a $400 expenditure are probably already on some form of government assistance. UBI will make Americans more dependent on government. That's a bad thing on every level
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Yang was right all along and it took a pandemic for people to realize it. We need ubi now.
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Thank you for saying this
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Universal basic income would be perfect!
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