With respect to @rokhanna & progressive leaders who think $1 trillion to "state & local govt" is critical—the backroom/corrupt secret of our country is 9 x out of 10, fed money earmarked for states/cities don't actually go to the stated destinations 1/1
From the $170 million Congress passed to Flint to $10.5 billion to New Orleans for Hurricane Katrina...go ask the people of Flint or New Orleans (or local officials) how much of that $ actually went toward #FlintWaterCrisis relief or Hurricane Katrina relief. The SHAMEFUL.. 2/2
reality is federal money earmarked for states and cities often gets diverted to big donors companies/groups, big real estate developers, banks, non-profits (lot of them shams) and other totally unrelated destinations 3/3...
Sending $1 trillion to states/cities is essentially sending $ to Governors to then be sent to whomever benefits/funds that Governor most. Maybe a quarter of the money will actually go to the destinations we THINK it's going to. That's why the ACTUAL relief bill would be 4/4...
what @RashidaTlaib proposed in her bill---give Americans a replenish-able debit card w/ $2,000 a month that gets refilled every month for as long as crisis goes on. Simple and most effective. We print money for war and tax cuts for the rich...now time to print it for the people
