Sanders says it's 'absurd' to lower income threshold for stimulus checks

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Sen. Sanders decries effort to lower the income threshold for stimulus check eligibility in the latest Covid-19 relief package, calling it 'absurd' and senseless.

Sanders said phasing out checks beginning at $50,000 for individuals "makes no sense to me at all, nor do I think it makes sense to the American people."

"Now, when people said, 'we don't want rich people to get that benefit,' I understand that. I agree," Sanders continued. He added,"But to say to a worker in Vermont or California or anyplace else that, if you're making $52,000 a year, you are too rich to get this help, the full benefit, I think that that's absurd."who should be eligible for a new round of checks as they seek to pass a new stimulus package.

 

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Agreed...!!!

He ain't wrong

Cruel and this country is into slave labor. European countries treat their employees so much better

I know we all remember Republicans limiting the benefits of the Trump tax cuts to families making $80k or less. SenSanders

Most Teachers fall just at that threshold and they've been working overtime for a year. pass

It's a STIMULUS check, not a welfare check! Don't fall for that crap of the obscenely wealthy. Get the money into the economy as fast as possible.

I sure hate to think that you’re supporting all those MAGA people that didn’t work because they were flocking to MAGA events and storming the Capitol.

Our fam of now 4 adults only has one working fulltime now supporting the rest of us who are only able to work some partime hours. Our expenses have increased now that both son's are in college. We have a fraction of the income we had in 2019. We are some of the lucky ones.

And he is correct.

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If the “hardcore Trumpsters” don’t want it; send all Stimulus and Overpayment of their unemployment to: 30 Jones Rd. Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 * I’ll take control from there👍🏼

Dollars to donuts says, the TheDemocrats will cave to whatever the GOP wants. They do it every time. FuckPartisanship

Thank you! $50 and $100 thousand dollars here in Florida is not what it is in Mississippi.

Bernie's right! $50k in New England is living on the edge. One problem, car accident, a major illness, (covid, for example), and you're under water. Especially if you have a family! I know its different in TN. Tie the benefit to region. Easy and fair.

Basing it on 2019 income and not taking into consideration each city’s cost of living is senseless. Many making a livable wage in 2019 may now be living in poverty. And someone living in Hawaii making $67,500 in 2019 was considered low income.

It's totally unfair...

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