Our feckless president and his Republican Party controlled Senate propose using tax funds to rescue corporations and fashions a rescue that cuts out the lowest earners from financial support. It gets even worse..
“But he also injected new uncertainty into the government’s response, suggesting it was not his responsibility to meet the needs of health care workers on the front lines of combating the disease. A day after he said he would use the Defense Production Act — a Korean War-era law that allows presidents to force American industry to ramp up production of critical equipment and supplies — Mr. Trump told reporters that he would rather rely on states to deliver equipment to health care workers.” (Emphasis medicynic)
“On Capitol Hill, Republicans presented a bill that would offer bridge loans of up to $10 million each to small businesses, extend hundreds of billions of dollars in loans to large corporations in distressed industries and send checks as large as $1,200 per adult to individuals earning less than $99,000 per year. The payments would phase in for earners up to $75,000 — meaning lower earners would get smaller checks — and then phase out again at $99,000. Those who did not earn enough to pay income tax would receive much less: $600.”
“The Senate bill also includes a raft of temporary changes to the tax code that would reduce the tax liability of large corporations, many of them overriding provisions in the 2017 tax overhaul that were meant to raise revenue to offset corporate rate cuts.”
Medicynical note: Where to start. In the chaos of the Trump administration we learn that our leader doesn’t think it his responsibility to assure access to competent care and testing. Where I live the PeaceHealth hospital (a several state multi hospital organization ) is reporting shortages of all types of medical materials as well as test kits. The staff feels extremely vulnerable because of the lack of preparation. This is a microcosm of the nationwide situation. Remember Trump gutted the government’s ability to anticipate and plan for a pandemic after his election. What’s happening was predicted but our guy knew better (sic) he is reaping at the expense of citizens lives and fortunes what he has sowed.
The Senate plan pointedly gives little financial support to the poorest in our society while proposing yet another large tax cut for corporations. The last tax cut, you recall doubled, the federal deficit. Trump, meanwhile, says he’s going to cut social security Medicare and Medicaid because of the large government deficits from his tax cuts to corporations and wealthy. Chutzpah combined with chaos.
So corporations under Trump receive bailouts from tax payer funds from which they want to be excused from paying. While in effect taxing the sick and elderly by cutting their Social Security and access to health care. America, something terrible is happening and his name is……..Trump.
Medicynic 