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Ok. But people still need money. The people who were working fast food jobs a couple years ago and are now choosing not to work… how are they paying rent and ea
by beervirus 5y ago
Ok. But people still need money. The people who were working fast food jobs a couple years ago and are now choosing not to work… how are they paying rent and eating?
Government handouts are the one thing that has changed for those folks.
- imtringued 5y ago> how are they paying rent Do you count an eviction moratorium as a handout?
- beervirus 5y agoAbsolutely I do.
- effingwewt 5y agoWhat about the PPP loans every company took and used it to pay the owners while laying off/firing their workforce, was that not a handout?
- beervirus 5y agoForgiven loans are surely also a handout, although… the whole point of how the forgiveness was structured was to prevent people from firing or laying off their workers. So I think your comment is based on a false premise.
- effingwewt 5y agoNot even close when people were opening businesses just to get them, or fluffing theur payroll to get the max. They also just had to use X% for payroll, didn't say how much to whom, so you can just imagine how that panned out. Incidentally you can look up what businesses have taken in loans.[1] [1] https://www.federalpay.org/paycheck-protection-program/ https://www.federalpay.org/paycheck-protection-program/ edit to add- a lot of business owners including my own father took the max possible even though he didn't need it one bit, as not doing so was 'leaving money on the table'