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soothsayer

(38,601 posts)
Tue Feb 2, 2021, 12:20 PM Feb 2021

Gym Jordan: Paychecks are the best stimulus check


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Donald J. Drumpf
@RealDonalDrumpf
An arrest is the best way to stop the team doctor from repeatedly raping your students, Gym.

Rep. Jim Jordan
@Jim_Jordan
Paychecks are the best stimulus check
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Response to soothsayer (Original post)

sop

(10,297 posts)
2. A secure job that pays a living wage with benefits is the best stimulus, Gym.
Tue Feb 2, 2021, 12:34 PM
Feb 2021

Your party only cares about increasing corporate profits.

Roland99

(53,342 posts)
3. Gym Jordan represents the most loathsome of creatures: republicans
Tue Feb 2, 2021, 12:35 PM
Feb 2021

beyond a lack of any empathy at all.

Just pure, unmitigated anger and greed


and I would point him to this:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215041359

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
4. Jordan has never held a real job.
Tue Feb 2, 2021, 01:21 PM
Feb 2021

How the hell would he know. BTW,that line has always been used by the Demagogues of History.

haele

(12,693 posts)
6. Does that mean I can put him down for supporting a base $15 minimum wage with locality offsets?
Tue Feb 2, 2021, 01:39 PM
Feb 2021

Along with single payer/Medicare for under 22/over 45 to support small businesses and minimum wage families? Maybe toss in 24/7 Daycare or after school family supplemental program so that working parents have some place where their kids are safe, fed and would have a chance to finish school work or play in a supervised location rather than being left home alone?

Locality offsets would mean that in high CoL areas, the minimum wage will go up to $22 an hour. And of course, we'd have to get turn tips into bonus payments instead of income and have different regulations for those.
To pay for this, we can easily add a .001% tax on all stock market trades, lift the Social Security cap, restore the tax tiers to the early Reagan levels, heck, all sorts of things that aren't going to cost more than an impromptu 3-day weekend outing for those who would be paying for it.

The cost of a civilized, advanced society should not be borne by those who cannot afford it. That includes small businesses that aren't niche real estate or hedge funds.

But I don't expect most GOP to understand that.
Haele

Warren_Pointe

(329 posts)
8. During the Irish Potato Famine, landlords would not just give away food.
Tue Feb 2, 2021, 05:54 PM
Feb 2021

The residents had to do some work. As a result, the entire island is criss-crossed with stone walls/fences. All while food was being exported.

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