GOP Politicians Hate Small Business

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  1. Ddyad

    Ddyad Well-Known Member

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    Helping small businesses and ordinary Americans is easy.
    One sentence, not 6000 pages, is all that is required.

    NOTICE: This bill is a suggestion - a draft for the use of any politicians who still think human voters matter.

    Calendar No. ___
    S. _____

    IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
    December __, 2020

    A BILL
    Making appropriations for Pandemic relief for the American Productive Working Class.
    1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury to send every American who reported income in 2019 on their 1040 Form A BIG GREEN USG CHECK for $2,000.00 every month for SIX months.

    Why haven't our GOP politicians introduced such a bill?

    “The system is functioning precisely how they want it to function. Gridlock, complex laws, highly technical bills, and regulations that target specific groups have a commercial purpose for the Permanent Political Class.” EXTORTION, "How Politicians Extract Your money, Buy Votes, And Line Their Own Pockets, Peter Schweizer, HMO, NY, NY, 2013, p. 8.
     
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    Jeff Bezos, the WalMart heirs , Big Tech and their Chinese business partners do not need stimulus money - as that is where the money will be spent. Obviously in many Democratic Party states is won't be spent on local small business because their Democratic totalitarian governors and mayors have outlawed small businesses on behalf of the richest international corporations and people on earth.
     
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    What is the difference between a Democrat pol and a Republican pol with respect to Jeff Bezos, the Walmart heirs, Big Tech, and Chinese businesses?
     
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    Who did the richest international corporations and people on earth support in the last election? The covid-19 lockdowns are making trillions for Big Tech and the super rich, while permanently eliminating their middle class merchant competitors. Who is most ordering lockdowns by totalitarian edicts? Exactly who the plutocrats just made their president for their corporate region of the United States.
     
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    They hate them much less than the democrats that shut them down causing the crisis in the first place.
     
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    That's not how bills work.
     
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    GOP Politicians Hate Small Business
    Then why is it the Democrats are shutting down small businesses with exuberance and little restraint?
     
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    Republicans like Trump/Barr and Larry Hogan have supported the lockdowns.
     
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    Why are Republican politicians letting them do that?
     
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    What do you think is wrong with my proposed bill?

    Why hasn't the RP proposed such legislation?
     
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    What has the RP leadership done to oppose any of that?
     
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    You took the words right out of my mouth!
     
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    The wording isn't legally acceptable. No committee could pass it.
     
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    What, specifically, is illegal about the wording?
     
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    There is nothing Republicans can do in Democrat controlled states and cities, and besides there are a few Republican politicians who don't give a damn one way or the other, their whining and carping not withstanding.
     
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    What do you suppose stopped the RP Senate from holding serious public hearings into the charges of election rigging right after the witnesses came forward? ;-)
     
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    They were probably busy with other things. :icon_picknose: There is at least a few RP senators who are happy to see Trump go -- Romney even voted to convict! However, the reality is that the senate can do little about it other than shout and grandstand. It is the state legislatures that we need to overturn this abomination of an election, and/or a Supreme Court with courage and an interest in justice.
     
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    Not wanting to alienate the base by exposing Trump's claims of fraud as being fraudulent. His track record in court pursuing these baseless claims is 1-59.
     
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    That's an easy one. The small businesses aren't the ones who fund politicians' campaigns so they don't matter. The small businesses are not powerful so they can get away with it. It is fascinating to me how the dregs of society (politicians) think they are better than everyone else when, in fact, they are sediment at the bottom of the barrel.
     
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    But not because of a lack evidence. The evidence has not been investigated. The judges had no interest in hearing a case after the election was finished. They wouldn't want the case to win or lose so they didn't hear them.
     
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    It's not illegal but it needs to be more specific otherwise it ends up straight in court and gets tossed.

    We can start with the fact that you have no set spending amount which is a requirement in any spending bill.

    You have to do your math and put the total cost in there or it's invalid.
     
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    Read it carefully. The proposed bill is very specific.

    "NOTICE: This bill is a suggestion - a draft for the use of any politicians who still think human voters matter.

    Calendar No. ___
    S. _____

    IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
    December __, 2020

    A BILL
    Making appropriations for Pandemic relief for the American Productive Working Class.
    1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury to send every American who reported income in 2019 on their 1040 Form A BIG GREEN USG CHECK for $2,000.00 every month for SIX months."

    The only problem is that it is far too specific - for professional politicians.
    Not enough "specific" pork for the donor class ;-)

    “Media reports on government actions, whether debates, legislation, or regulation, almost always present them in terms of pure policy. New laws are for a specific purpose, perhaps even a noble one. But what if that isn't the real purpose of the exercise? What if politics is largely about fund-raising and moneymaking? The commercial motives of the Permanent Political Class in acting or not acting are rarely questioned and virtually never fully understood.” EXTORTION, "How Politicians Extract Your money, BuyVotes, And Line Their Own Pockets, Peter Schweizer, HMO, NY, NY, 2013. p. 2, 3.
     
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    Well the reasons bills get pork added to 5hem is an issue of time.

    There are not enough hours in the day for congress to write, review, debate, an amend each item separately.

    If they did that they would get so backed up that the legislation would expire before they could vote on it.
     
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    And even for a rough draft that isn't how it's done.

    If you want to bring it to the floor for a vote it must go through a committee who won't release legislation without specifics.

    You don't put up legislation with a bunch of blanks in it.
     
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    A Congress that has created well over $200 Trillion in unfunded mandates can not credibly pretend to insist on fiscal accountability as an objection to a bill reimbursing citizens for damages inflicted by its own malfeasance.

    But a specific number should be easy for any legislator to come up with.
    It does not take 6000 pages to calculate $2000 x the total number of American citizens filing a Form 1040 in 2019.

    THE DAILY RECKONING, $205 Trillion in Unfunded Liabilities, By Gary North,
    FEBRUARY 12, 2014.
    https://dailyreckoning.com/205-trillion-in-unfunded-liabilities/
     
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