I suppose that they could vote themselves into a regional Great Depression, which with their tribal type of thinking wouldn’t be surprising. I mean, people in W Va rail on EVs, which would increase coal usage and lower the cost of gas.
Yeah, that seems likely to happen.
The government awarded monies to the states during the pandemic. They were given a deadline (which extended past the time when COVID was a pandemic) to spend the money. Because, you know, school buildings and such projects aren’t planned for and built in the span of a year or less.
Right. COVID money probably shouldn't be used to build buildings because building construction has nothing to do with Covid. That money should be returned.
I'm open to debate on this, but I must say that what Zen is saying here makes a lot of sense to me. The old-school conservative in me feels like it would be incredibly wasteful for Covid money to be used on things not at all related to Covid. Just saying.
The CARES Act was passed by a Dem majority house (419-6) and Republican majority senate (96-0) and signed into law by Trump. Like it or not, it had broad, bipartisan support.
What ZenMode thinks should happen with government funds is way outside of the point.
Well, if we are legally required to keep the money with the states, ok, but this is just another bigger-picture issue of unnecessary spending that is driving us toward financial oblivion.
Ask MTG if she can give back the $189k she got, then we can worry about other companies.
This is not true. COVID era money to businesses via PPP and other programs did not require a business to be closed. I personally know of a small business that received 6 figures and it had a record year for revenue and profit.
Didn't we used to have a poster here who took exceptional umbrage at hypocrisy?
What happened to state income tax and sales tax revenue when many people were laid off and stayed home during the pandemic? Would that impact the budgets of these states? How may that disrupt long term infrastructure projects that would still be necessary after the pandemic?
It would decrease, as would revenues for the federal government.
If they were completely financially irresponsible, to the point that they had absolutely no money saved and/or couldn't borrow money or simply run in the red for whole, yes.
That would depend on each individual state's financial situation, the size of the project, etc. Long term, with local state and federal governments, I'd say basically nothing was impacted.
Oddly, after reading your post, I wondered the same thing.
That may be true, but the point was that money was allocated for salaries and couldn't legally be used for other things.
If she kept money she shouldn't have, she needs to repay it also.
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Tots and pears.Deep red kentucky joining Arkansas and WV in finding out.
Beshear: FEMA assistance denied for additional counties affected by February flooding
FEMA has denied public assistance for two counties and individual assistance for six counties following February flooding, Governor Beshear announced Wednesday.
It was an “Education Stabilization Fund,” and they were given to be used in precisely the way the states are using them.
