LOCKED: Coronavirus

posted by ernest_t_bass

Who's keeping the check, and who's giving it back?  I assume you claim it as income on 2020 tax filing, correct?

Fucking aye.  What kind of Taxception bullshit is it that you get taxed on income paid for by taxes on income?

Senate has passed the bill 100-0

posted by wildcats20

Senate has passed the bill 100-0

It won’t actually be 100-0, but there are no senators voting no. 

96-0

Did they have to buy Bernie another house to keep him from blocking it?

posted by BR1986FB

Heard earlier is was set to pass but old crazy Bernie put the kibosh on it.

Don't know about Bernie but 4 Republicans were holding it up over the unemployment provisions. Their amendment to scale it back was voted down.

People can potetntially get paid more to NOT work.  Freaking crazy.

posted by Ironman92

I’ve not kept up but stimulus $1200 or $2400 a person if under $150,000 a year?

I'm the only one who works in the house and I still won't be getting it at that figure (150k).

reminds me of this skit:

posted by Dr Winston O'Boogie

Are you serious?  Please reassure us that you aren't really "that guy".

I am not 'that guy' but his one lady was going loco.  She wants all the gas stations, grocery stores, closed and no one even allowed to go outside to walk or do anything.    I told her people wont go for that, nor should they....

posted by ernest_t_bass

Who's keeping the check, and who's giving it back?  I assume you claim it as income on 2020 tax filing, correct?

Sure

posted by Heretic

Doubt he's trolling, since last week, he was all "No, me go to gym and you can't stop me!" until gyms were shut down. Seems to be some sort of side effect of being really insecure, where you have to project an image of what you consider to be toughness regardless of how stupid you actually look to everyone else. Kind of like when you're a little kid and your parents tell you to put on a coat and you're like, "No, I'm not cold!!!!" and then have to act casual in short sleeves in 40-degree, rainy weather despite being miserable. With the added bonus of potentially infecting other people, that is.

Nah, when its cold I bundle up.  That is some kind of stupid right there!  ALways funny to see HS football coaches who always wear the shorts, even late in the playoffs to 'act tough'.  Dude has to be miserable.   

I could still use that small gym i referenced but since we are now directed to work from home I dont plan on driving all the way to that place and will just run around the hood, until that gets banned too.

Weekly jobless claims over the past 25 years. Woof.

posted by justincredible

Weekly jobless claims over the past 25 years. Woof.

This whole thing is just tragic to what it is doing to the economies and will have long reaching effects.  I am fortunate to work from home, but i did get two important work trips cancelled taht would have netted me an additional monies i was counting on and a promotion, but i am grateful to still be working and getting paid.

Huge push in our local town for peeps to get take out/drive through at local restaurants. Some have been running out of food, 2hour waits, placing the order the day before, with so much outpouring support but this is gonig to hurt a lot folks.

I feel for those who lost their jobs. Other than those in minimum-wage type jobs (and not even all of them), my empathy is tempered by the study in Forbes last year showing 78% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Falls under "Life is hard, and harder if you're stupid".

Saw this in tweet form this morning:

What do you plan to buy with your relief check, and in what caliber?

posted by justincredible

Saw this in tweet form this morning:

What do you plan to buy with your relief check, and in what caliber?

My plan is 75% of it goes into my "BILLS" account and 25% is my cash money homey.   I figured this way throughout the summer I can contribulte a little less from each paycheck to go to my BILLS acount.

Or I may use it towards the jet skis I want to get.

BUT if history has taught me anything, about when that check comes ill have some emergency car/house/medical expense ill need to take care of with it instead.

I ALMOST thought about taking one of these emergency opening jobs that some places are needed during this lockdown as some extra money on the weekend/evenings but decided against it because I dont want to take it from some who are out of work.

posted by thavoice

I ALMOST thought about taking one of these emergency opening jobs that some places are needed during this lockdown as some extra money on the weekend/evenings but decided against it because I dont want to take it from some who are out of work.

Same.....could deliver pizza again (been asked to come back) but I dont need it.  I dont live paycheck to paycheck.  Likely have 6+ months worth of income in liquid cash.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/26/us/woman-coughed-on-produce-trnd/index.html

What the hell is wrong with people?  She should get a longer jail sentence then other criminals