re: #27 Anymouse 🌹🎃

Well, that’s dead on arrival with Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul.

Some of it seems too complicated to implement in the short term.

And this idea of sending checks to people immediately whether the $1k as Trump seems to accept, or $2k as Maxine Waters suggests - sure, I’ll take the money. But how will the government find how to send money to every adult? People who don’t submit IRS forms will not be in the IRS database. And the addresses the IRS have for many will be out of date. One can come up with a long list of issues that’s going to be hurdles.

A debt-holiday is probably workable… but does that mean people can just open new credit accounts at will and spend whatever credit said new accounts allow during this period, but not pay it back? Will a debt-holiday lead to lenders just not issuing new debt? If no new mortgages are written, then won’t that pretty much stop any house sales (other than the very rich who buy houses completely with cash.)

And so on.

I wonder if a better approach would be to take a clue from FDR. Why not just tell OPM that the US Gov’t has a job for anyone who has lost wages during this crisis? A massive works project. Surely there’s more than enough deferred repairs to this country, and enough tasks to be done during this crisis, to employ many millions of people. The OPM and US laws already allow for temporary government employment, so this can be implemented immediately.