re: Will the rich unemployment benefit in the stimulus bill delay economic recovery??

Horrible unless of course you are trying to save the businesses and their customers (us) who make up the American economy. There is pretty much a consensus among the responsible experts and pols that it needed to be done. But I guess we could ignore all that and take the opinion of a crackpot on an internet board. Your hero's on the left wanted and got their way to expand unemployment to the extent it was expanded.

"So...if you draw SS & still work..." Yep.And as noted La. is one of only 4 states that takes that reduction.With that low of a weekly rate, that reduction usually results in zero State benefits being paid out. I can not address employers not having to pay unemployment taxes or not, but I do know when I do officially retire, my SS benefits will go up by the additional money I have earned & "put" into the system. And the meaning of the word "stimulus" does explain this additional Fed benefit perfecrly.

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There's no doubt about it, it'll be no shortage of slackers living only in the moment and doing backstrokes in their newly obtained pile of free money.

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More than you think.

Everybody in Katrina impacted Louisiana will tell you that had we had to depend on local labor sitting at home drawing to rebuild we would still have blue tarps everywhere.

"A massive expansion of government"...in a historical period of time never experienced before. How would you solve the country's problems?

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How would you solve the country's problems?

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.in a historical period of time never experienced befor

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I would not change the rules for sun screen manufacturers.

I would not make staying home more lucrative than working.

I would not worry about the Kennedy Center.

I would concentrate on areas where the out breaks are most concentrated--down to to the neighborhood.

I would relax FDA regs on drugs and devices.

I would deploy the National Guard or similar labor to airports and gathering places to check fevers so that people sick with whatever illness are not mixing among us.

I would offer a billion dollar prize to the first company that deployed 500,000 quick testing devices similar to the device Abbot just started making.

I would cut spending on defense and other government functions to pay for most of this.

I would give tax CREDITS dollar for dollar to replace any loses they have including wages to people they would otherwise layoff. This would be a huge incentive to keep going on once the limits are lifted. It would also give the businesses a vehicle to use to demonstrate to banks and vendors their viability going forward. Neither banks or suppliers want to cut off these businesses. The credits could be transferable so they will have cash value as soon as they are earned.

I damn sure would not put a 5 time failed democrat politician with a lackluster academic career and no actual manufacturing experience like Peter Navarro in charge of "Defense Act Production Coordinator".

Sounds like some position in the former Soviet Union.

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The smart people will start looking as soon as the shelter in place orders are lifted and will be able to be more picky.

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Yes the smart ones will.

Getting more in unemployment benefits than the underlying salary is NEVER a good idea.

I share the concern- but I think propping up consumer demand (by keeping everyone’s money coming in) is a lot more critical than the labor shortage it may create as far as stabilizing the economy goes

I'll sympathize with your concerns, but I think maybe at the margins this will happen but the recovery will not be a truly symmetrical V