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1SG Civil Affairs Specialist
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I think a little deconstruction of the bill is in order, as I have little doubt that there are some landmines in it in the hopes it would pass in an emergency measure and no one would look deeper.
The Senate should put their own bill together and hash it out in Conference Committee, like they are supposed to.
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SGT English/Language Arts Teacher
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Interesting article. Perhaps certain small businesses do not need to pay for employees. They need relief as well.
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MAJ James Woods
MAJ James Woods
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Maj Marty Hogan - We just need to make people like Bloomberg and Bevos and their multi-billion dollar industries pay their fair share of taxes at the appropriate tax rate to help cover the costs of all these relief efforts and financial bailouts for small businesses (large corporations can fend for themselves by cutting the salaries of their executives before laying off low level employees). I'm not going to criticize too much the businesses with less than 500 or even 100 employees asking for financial assistance since many of them have been competing at a disadvantage with much larger corporations. Situations vary but we can acknowledge the business that struggles providing routine benefits, employer provided healthcare, or $15/hr wages will most likely layoff an employee before giving them paid time off for self-quarantining or take care of an ill child for 14 calendar days probably need assistance.
Many parents are probably like me routinely depended on an older relative like grandparents and in-laws to help watch with sick children; obviously that's not an option these days.
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Maj Marty Hogan
Maj Marty Hogan
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MAJ James Woods - I have always wanted to see a flat tax. All should pay their fair share- lots of small mom and pop places will close because of this. Tragic, but reflective of the strongest survive. I have several friends that are small business guys- half are worried half are not. Dreams will be shattered- they were already fretting the $15 an hour minimum wage. Our area has to start around $10+ to be competitive or employees go to Taco Johns and start for $11.50.

I plan on helping my mom and mom-in-law however we need. Already buying groceries and not letting them go anywhere. This is the time for communities to take care of their own. Will see who helps- thinking the FB rhetoric on open boarders and love for all is only a posting. We shall see. Stay safe brother and wash your hands.
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MAJ James Woods
MAJ James Woods
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Maj Marty Hogan - The strongest survive implies those big corporations never should've received a taxpayer funded bailout during the auto industry crash, mortgage finance crash, and Wall Street crash. True capitalism would've let them fail and allow the competitor that survived replace them. But political lobbying intervened.
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Cpl Jeff N.
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There should be nothing in this bill but Corona virus funding. Nothing else. Politicians are playing with time and time is the one thing we don't have to waste. The democrats know this and are trying to put things in this to get them passed. If the GOP pushes back then they look like they are wasting time. This is a political calculation by Pelosi and crew. Purely despicable.
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Cpl Jeff N.
Cpl Jeff N.
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"supposedly" being the operative word. This should be focused only on a response to the pandemic. We should all be able to agree on that. All of the other stuff are regulations and costs being hoisted on businesses and others that need a real debate.
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MSgt Steve Sweeney
MSgt Steve Sweeney
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MAJ James Woods - Jeff is just wildly speculating out his ass, per usual, based on what he "feels" is true.
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MAJ Byron Oyler
MAJ Byron Oyler
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MSgt Steve Sweeney - Please forgive me Rallypoint Gods, Sweeney Todd is just being an ass to Jeff as usual. There is a better chance of Sweeney voting for Trump than being respectful to Jeff.
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Cpl Jeff N.
Cpl Jeff N.
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MAJ Byron Oyler - Sweeney is just a gnat. He buzzes around, nothing to really add. He isn't even a sand flea, just a gnat, no teeth at all.

It seems he looks for anything I post and takes a contrarian position. Probably caused by a lifetime of not measuring up. You are correct though, there is a better chance he would vote Trump than agree with me. if he ever agreed with anything I posted the site might crash so we need to keep that in mind.
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