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Why was this included in a Covid-19 stimulus bill?
by thesausageking 5y ago
Why was this included in a Covid-19 stimulus bill?
- walterbell 5y agoTrillions of stimulus can lead to inflation. Payment kill switches or other negative incentives can constrain money velocity in selected geo-regions or industries, as a deflationary tool.
- gsibble 5y agoBecause they knew no one would read it. There's a lot more in there and the infrastructure bill too. Like a remote kill switch for vehicles to be used by law enforcement in the infrastructure bill. Democrats love hiding unpopular stuff in gigantic bills because they no no one reads them or even has time to before they are passed.
- LorenPechtel 5y agoBoth sides are guilty of this.
- stjohnswarts 5y agothis is one reason I did care about them squashing the next big spending bill. It shoudl be split up into smaller bills so they can't hide as much pork and invasions of privacy like this crazy new law (from OP).
- adolph 5y agoA bill is a changeset to law. It has a title that is generally aligned with the major intent. Otherwise the bill as a whole acts like a freight train; the major intent is the engine and whatever else ready to be merged is hitched onto it.
- nunez 5y agoWhat an amazing analogy.
- UnpossibleJim 5y ago"They" often include unpopular riders with necessary bills. This happens with a lot of military and pork belly spending as well.
- tomschlick 5y agoBecause while telling everyone they were going to pay for the trillions in stimulus via taxing the rich (spoiler: they wont), they had to include things to actually increase revenue and tax enforcement on the middle class while saying you're going to help them isn't a great campaign strategy.