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Any news on a second stimulus check? (Original Post) Just_Vote_Dem Jul 2020 OP
Second? I haven't gotten my first yet! marybourg Jul 2020 #1
Me neither... Zoonart Jul 2020 #3
Arrrgh! Sorry about that Just_Vote_Dem Jul 2020 #4
Yes. At first it said I qualify. At some point it changed to marybourg Jul 2020 #7
Ugh. Same thing happened to a family member Just_Vote_Dem Jul 2020 #8
Last I saw SheltieLover Jul 2020 #2
Thing is wryter2000 Jul 2020 #5
I agree SheltieLover Jul 2020 #13
Or course wryter2000 Jul 2020 #14
Thx! SheltieLover Jul 2020 #16
That's not stimulus... that's not enough. albacore Jul 2020 #19
You will receive it Nov 3rd at the polling station after requesting... ret5hd Jul 2020 #6
Bam! MontanaMama Jul 2020 #9
+1 2naSalit Jul 2020 #15
Just some rumblings. Sounds like Moscow Mitch might be on board... Wounded Bear Jul 2020 #10
I think Moscow Mitch and republicons will be on-board with it because of their sinking polling Claustrum Jul 2020 #11
Never got one yet. But I'm just doing my 2019 taxes now captain queeg Jul 2020 #12
cnet does a daily update, but as it sits: we don't know. Buns_of_Fire Jul 2020 #17
I think there will be a second round, but they won't come until.. mvd Jul 2020 #18

marybourg

(12,540 posts)
7. Yes. At first it said I qualify. At some point it changed to
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 11:48 AM
Jul 2020

we don’t have any information on you. I pay income tax every year and have bee receiving regular S. S. for 13 years. So . . . .?.?

SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)
2. Last I saw
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 11:43 AM
Jul 2020

Article talked about moscow mitch saying he wants to limit next stim checks to those with income <$40k. No mention of possible amount or timing.

wryter2000

(46,016 posts)
5. Thing is
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 11:45 AM
Jul 2020

You might have made over $40k last year but lost your job now. There has to be a better way. If you want to limit the checks, send them to people who've filed for unemployment.

albacore

(2,387 posts)
19. That's not stimulus... that's not enough.
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 01:14 PM
Jul 2020

The idea of a stimulus to the economy is putting money into the hands of the people who will spend ALL of it. Locally, hopefully.

Mitch wants to throw a few bucks at the problem of a shrinking economy, and convince us he did everything he could. Those people do not agree with the "pump-priming" aspect of economics. Free-market dogmatists who think Keynes was a commie.

https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/what-characteristics-make-fiscal-stimulus-most-effective

Wounded Bear

(58,440 posts)
10. Just some rumblings. Sounds like Moscow Mitch might be on board...
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 11:53 AM
Jul 2020

albeit for fewer people.

I don't need it as bad as others, but I could make good use of it.

Claustrum

(4,845 posts)
11. I think Moscow Mitch and republicons will be on-board with it because of their sinking polling
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 11:59 AM
Jul 2020

They need to send the checks to the voters to get their votes and distract people from the COVID disastrous response.

The hold up will be on how insistent Democrats are with budget for mail in voting for the general.

captain queeg

(10,036 posts)
12. Never got one yet. But I'm just doing my 2019 taxes now
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 12:15 PM
Jul 2020

I thought they’d said you had to have done either 18 or 19 but read last week you had to have done both. I think I made too much money in 2018 but not 2019.

Buns_of_Fire

(17,119 posts)
17. cnet does a daily update, but as it sits: we don't know.
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 12:57 PM
Jul 2020

The House passed their version some weeks ago. The tab: $3 Trillion. Moscow Mitch and Lord Lardass have both called it DOA.

Speaking of His Royal Fatness, he seems to be in favor of one, but with a lower price tag: $2 Trillion.

The consensus seems to be that there will be one, but dates and amounts and eligibility won't be discussed until the Senate gets back on the 20th. (BTW, MM is looking at a $1 Trillion package.)

So, right now, there's not much to do but wait.

mvd

(65,148 posts)
18. I think there will be a second round, but they won't come until..
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 01:12 PM
Jul 2020

August or September. Congress has to get back into session and come together to pass something. I think it should be $2,000 per person and go to at least as many people as last time. It is time to invest in people, not big corporations.

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