The “COVID-Relief” bill sells out Floridians
Bottom Line: Last week the Heritage Foundation broke out eight effectual points illustrating just how bad of an idea the bill fraudulently referred to as COVID-relief happens to be. Two, in particular, really drove home the fact that only 9% of the bill has anything to do with actual economic relief for Americans. Right behind it was the reality of just how abusive the bill is for the average household. The average cost of the proposed legislation per US household is $14,000. That means even if you’re to receive a $1,400 check, and not everyone will, it’ll cost you $14,000 in long-term tax liability plus interest to receive. The politicians supporting this economic fraud count on you being economically ignorant and informationally uninformed in order to garner support. They simply count on lemmings in the news media talking about $1,400 checks and you wanting to get your hands on it. What they don’t tell you is that literally the government doesn’t have anything to give you without taking it from you first. We quite literally fund the government with the taxes we pay, the government doesn’t fund us. That concept should be simple enough for even the least informed to understand. But what we’ve discussed thus far is what it means to the average American. The news is considerably worse when we isolate the impact to Floridians.
No state is more negatively impacted by the fraudulent COVID-relief bill than Florida. That’s because the majority of the debt spending is steered to bailout economic failing states like California, Illinois and New York. And economic failing cities like Chicago, Detroit and New York – at your literal expense. The real-world example of what’s happening here is like this. You’re fiscally responsible, you pay your bills on time and are able to save money by making some personal sacrifices when it comes to spending on frivolous things. Your neighbor, who bought a house they couldn’t afford, with cars to match and who has maxed out their credit cards is about to go bankrupt. But instead of your neighbor being held accountable for their irresponsible behavior, you have the government takeaway your savings to pay for neighbor’s unsustainable debt.
How is this being done? Rather than having “direct aid” aimed equitably across the across the country based on population, the Democrats who’ve crafted this have based aid to states and cities on the unemployment rate. What states have the highest unemployment rates? You guessed it – the same blue-states who’ve mismanaged their finances and crimpled their states and cities with lockdowns. All top ten beneficiaries all badly mismanaged Democrat run states. Those top ten states happen to be – in order: Hawaii, Nevada, California, Colorado, New York, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey and Illinois. I could continue – for example Michigan’s next up at #11 but you get the idea. This is a direct fleecing of Floridians, fleecing of your family, to provide for the Andrew Cuomo’s and Gavin Newsome’s of the country. Every Democrat in Florida in Congress supported this. This means Ted Deutch sold you out. Alcee Hastings sold you out. Lois Frankel sold you out. Debbie Wasserman Shultz sold you out. Frederica Wilson sold you out. It’s important that you realize they’re not representing your interests. They are selling you out for their own political interests.
While Florida’s Senators Rubio and Scott will oppose the financial theft of Floridians, they’ll need to be at least one Democrat in the Senate who will put those they serve over the political party they adhere to in Washington. The question is if there’s even one elected Democrat in Washington willing to do the right thing? Here’s to hoping.
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