Is it fair to means test the $1400 Covid government payment?
With so much pork flowing, some argue that everybody should get into it. For ourselves, we have argued that it is ridiculous, with the US facing ultimate bankruptcy, that millionaires are paid full Social Security.
(From CNBC)
“I certainly don’t want to be seen as resentful of people with limited means,” says McKinney, who lives in New York state. “But, to limit the threshold of those who would be eligible for this stimulus is just ridiculous with all the pork-barrel spending that’s going toward special ‘projects.’
It is unclear as to whether the author at CNBC was trying to convey irony.
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