Thread by @nycsouthpaw

There are so many ways this is dumb.

https://twitter.com/arthurdelaneyhp/status/1357057199500107776

1 - all income measures and especially the ones Congress uses are too backward looking to know who’s lost income and is now in need

2 - the threshold is abbbbsurdly low

3 - it’s solving a problem that’s not a problem; a little extra cash to everyone would help the economy

4 - if you absolutely must solve the non-problem of a teensy bit too much income, it’s so easy to do it on the back end with our extremely well-develop policy tool of *drumroll* income taxes

5 - this is a battle we should be having about MONTHLY RECURRING CHECKS, which could truly stand in as reliable income during the crisis. Instead we’re having it over one-time checks that are little more than political totems. Why would you whittle *those* down? They’re symbolic!