A third hypothesis: What if the masks were infected out of the box?
Say, if someone in the manufacturing or packaging process was infected, resulting in a batch of infected masks?
I am not saying this is correct, but it is intriguing.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/elon-musk-cnn-ventilators
“Weird to attack CNN for what the CA governor’s office said - especially when your own spokespeople at Tesla didn’t respond to requests for comment,” Dornic wrote. “Seems like your outrage should, uh, be directed at the entity that made the claim, not the one that reported it. U new to this?”
And do you take an source at their word, CNN? What happened to fact checking?
they should have driven right over these MAGAt retards. just hit the accelerator and *THUNK* *THUNK*
Over 43,000 US millionaires will get ‘stimulus’ averaging $1.6 million each
From the Independent:
That gives the roughly 43,000 individual tax filers who make at least $1 million a year a savings of $70.3 billion — or about $1.6 million apiece, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation.
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“For those earning $1 million annually, a tax break buried in the recent coronavirus relief legislation is so generous that its total cost is more than total new funding for all hospitals in America and more than the total provided to all state and local governments,”
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From the Daily Mail:
JCT determined that only less than three percent of the benefits will go to Americans earning less than $100,000 per year
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Comparatively, 82 percent of the benefits of the provision will be received by those who earn $1 million or more annually
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/coronavirus-stimulus-checks-millionaires-wealthy-tax-break-loophole-a9466476.html (alternative source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8219533/Tax-provisions-buried-coronavirus-relief-act-Republicans-millionaires.html )
This seems like a shockingly unfair policy to me. Most Americans are struggling with unemployment and get 1200$ (that's less than 1 week of the average US salary), yet those who are the most fortunate, who will be in the least danger of suffering from this crisis, get enormous amounts of gifts from the taxpayer. How can this be? If there's ever an example that shows more that politicians in the US are working for the rich, not all American people it is this, in my opinion. Sickening.
There are definitely a lot of people that use this to criticize Trump, but that was not my intention. I believe both Republican and Democrats fundamentally serve the rich of the country. And this is an example showing that again. I do think the Republicans are a lot more overt about it generally. But I think the same thing would have happened with any Republican president besides Trump, and tbh I suspect it would have under Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden as well. They all know where their bread is buttered, and it's not the working people of America.
Michigan rates tripled.
The problem is lack of testing. THAT is why the lockdowns, and what the protesters are ignoring.
No tests mean you can't know who has it, and who can spread it
Michigan is worst in the country right now. New York may have morr more overall deaths, but a much lower infection rate.
Originally posted by Artol
[b]Over 43,000 US millionaires will get ‘stimulus’ averaging $1.6 million eachhttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/coronavirus-stimulus-checks-millionaires-wealthy-tax-break-loophole-a9466476.html (alternative source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8219533/Tax-provisions-buried-coronavirus-relief-act-Republicans-millionaires.html )
This seems like a shockingly unfair policy to me. Most Americans are struggling with unemployment and get 1200$ (that's less than 1 week of the average US salary), yet those who are the most fortunate, who will be in the least danger of suffering from this crisis, get enormous amounts of gifts from the taxpayer. How can this be? If there's ever an example that shows more that politicians in the US are working for the rich, not all American people it is this, in my opinion. Sickening. [/B]
I knew this article seemed suspect when it said that these 43,000 people would get 82% of the stimulus. It's simply not possible with the way the bill was written.
This is a great example of "fake news." The reader is misled with the content. The facts are between the lines and if you don't know more details, you'll be led to believe that 43,000 millionaires will get 82% of the 2.2 million in the stimulus bill. That's a rather insidious and deceptive lie. It is done to spark outrage with the reader who is likely struggling at the moment. It is done to make you have disdain for Republicans. This is how the Democrats and the left build up little acolytes to get votes - work with the media to make people hate Republicans. Even one of the articles mentions that Democrats voted for this bill but, yet, they put all the blame on Republicans. Interesting, isn't it?
To understand what is going on in the articles, you have to know 3 things:
1. Allowing more deductions to be applied to your tax liability is not a stimulus payout. It is a reduction in your tax burden. A tax credit would have been more concerning because that is a direct credit on your taxes. If you net tax burden is $0, a tax deduction of $50,000 will make your tax burden still $0. It won't change it. If you get a tax credit of $50,000, your tax burden is -$50,000.
2. The article says these tax breaks will cost US Taxpayers $90 billion this year, alone. This is just an outright lie. The government will collect $90 billion less in taxes this year. There is not fixed "invoice" that the Americans must pay each year on income taxes. The "income tax invoice" doesn't get spread around to other Americans if one income bracket has a lower tax burden. What the articles really should say is that, this year, that particular income group from the 43,000 may have an overall lower tax burden by $90 billion. The government will collect far less income taxes this year due to the millions of Americans currently not earning a paycheck. Why doesn't the article mention the loss of income taxes from the 10 million Americans currently collecting unemployment? You aren't working, you aren't paying income taxes. I bet you they wouldn't dare say that that the US Taxpayers not paying taxes will cost US Taxpayers $110 billion dollars because it is asinine and nonsensical to word it like that. That's exactly what the article is trying to say about the $43,000.
3. Look for the sneakiness in the articles. It says temporary tax relief. But then it talks about this tax break benefit lasting through 2030 to arrive at it's 82% benefit. So they know this tax break is temporary (but how temporary, we aren't told) but then they calculate benefits lasting through 2030. And then they talk about adding $170 billion to the national deficit by 2030. Huh? What does that even mean? If we pretend we understand, perhaps it means that this tax break will result in a $170 billion tax break by 2030 for that same group meaning, due to economic improvements, that $90 billion tax break this year will grow to be $170 by the 2030 tax year. But how fair is it to keep counting a tax break year after year and keep adding it up and then to claim it counts towards the $2.2 trillion relief?
Regardless of all this, it is completely dishonest to say that 82% of the stimulus bill goes to these 43,000 millionaires. It's quite easy to check their facts with simple arithmetic. Firstly, it says right there in the article the the CARES bill provides $2.2 trillion in relief and aid to the American people.
Here is how that money breaks down:
Individuals / Families $603.7 billion 30%
Big Business $500.0 billion 25%
Small Business $377.0 billion 19%
State and Local Government $340.0 billion 17%
Public Services $179.5 billion 9%
And, as noted in another conversation, of the small business owners, you have to apply for the rent and payroll loans to be eligible for it and the average small business owner makes $30k-$75k a year (depending on the source you look at). Meaning, that small business relief is almost all going to middle class and lower incomes.
You can already tell the articles are wrong about the 82% figure because the individuals and families, alone, constitute 30% of the $2.2 trillion. Did no one think to fact check the Democrats before posting the Democratic propaganda? Why did no one bring up the fact that the Democratic talking point doesn't add up, right out of the gate? It would have been easy to see that the 82% figure is clearly a lie since 30% of that money is going to individuals and families who aren't making a ton of money each year (the stimulus puts caps on income and it tapers off as the person or family makes more).
Check out this video from Viva Frei where he breaks down how "fake news" and deception is used by the media to state facts but lie about it (those 2 articles on the stimulus bill are great examples of text book fake news). I wish he would have waited a few days to do that fake news video break down and used this article, instead. He's the kind of person who would have read the entire 1000 page bill just to find the section in there about the tax breaks, and then he would have broken down the text and like a lawyer to determine what it actually means:
Also, none of this argument from the Democrats would apply if we went to the Fair Tax Plan.
None of these loopholes would exist. Why don't the Democrats pass legislation like the Fair Tax Plan? Simple: they are every bit the corportist cucks that the Republicans are. They are just sneakier about it. Neither the GOP nor the Dems are honest. We really really need to get the Fair Tax Plan passed so all of these arguments disappear.
Texas pretty much has this type of tax plan in place, already. They are doing well (or were, before coronavirus).