Critics Smell 'Economic Sabotage' as McConnell Unveils Covid Plan With $0 for Unemployment Boost,

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"McConnell is making it pretty clear that if Dems don't win the Georgia Senate races, he will cripple the American economy, hoping it will let the GOP win the midterm."

by Jake Johnson, staff writer

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday began circulating a coronavirus relief proposal whose contents offer so little assistance to the tens of millions of jobless, hungry, and eviction-prone Americans that critics warned the Kentucky Republican is actively working to ensure the U.S. economy remains mired in deep recession as Biden administration takes charge next month.

Described as a "targeted" relief proposal, McConnell's plan is heavily geared toward providing corporations with immunity from coronavirus-related lawsuits; the offer includes a liability shield that Public Citizen's Remington Gregg described as "breathtakingly broad." The Kentucky Republican's plan also contains a 100% tax deduction for business meals.

Meanwhile, McConnell's proposed relief measure does not include a boost to federal unemployment insurance, instead calling for a mere one-month extension of existing programs and stricter requirements for applicants in the name of preventing "fraud." The Republican's proposal also omits another round of direct stimulus payments and aid to cash-strapped state and local governments.

"Leave it to Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump to propose a bill that creates tax write-offs for fancy lunches and gives the middle finger to working families and 20 million unemployed Americans," said Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.). "This is not a serious proposal, it is a slap in the face to people who need help."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/12/02/critics-smell-economic-sabotage-mcconnell-unveils-covid-plan-0-unemployment-boost

Hey Kentucky people that put this asshole back in office making over $225,000 a year living high off the taxpayer hog, getting health care from you, and being a traitor to the Constitution..................
Do like having family members and yourself and the country living through his fucking "Austerity measures " from hypocrites like this traitor, its our fucking money did you not get the memo .............JFC...................

[Iliyah]

1. Bah humburg . . .

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2. I concur..............

[beachbumbob]

3. GOP knows democrats will not sign on to this in hopes of making it an election issue as we

suck so bad at messaging and of course M$M is no help at all.

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4. If the mainstream media would make this their topic 24/7 instead of trump, trump, trump,

the sheeple might finally get it that it's the republicans who don't give a flying fuck about anybody but themselves.

[UpInArms]

5. The beatings will continue

until morale improves

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6. This is actually dumb politics with the GA runoffs looming

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7. 100% tax deduction for business meals

That's what's important to Sen. McConnell, not your petty concerns about what you're going to eat or where you're going to live when you can't go to work. Good job, Kentucky voters. A grateful nation thanks you for your service.

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8. Use it in Georgia...and beat McConnell ET AL up with their refusal to help starving Americans

everyday. Tell them over and over if you want relief, you must throw the bums out in Georgia this year and in 2022. We will starve as a nation under McConnell and his merry band of murderous thugs. There is not reason for any Democrat to vote for this shitty plan.