In many cases, it looks as if the coronavirus-related aid workers are getting from the government will be more than what they made at their actual job.
WSJ:
Roughly half of all U.S. workers stand to earn more in unemployment benefits than they did at their jobs before the coronavirus pandemic shut down wide swaths of the U.S. economy, and employers say the government relief is complicating plans to reopen businesses.
The package of coronavirus stimulus laws Congress passed and President Trump signed in March included a $600 boost to weekly unemployment benefits through July 31. As that support is added to state benefits over the coming weeks, the average weekly payment to a laid-off worker should rise to about $978 from the $377.97 the Labor Department said was paid on average late last year.
Qualified workers will receive the government payout every week through July, and in most cases, the combined $978 weekly payout amounts to better pay than what many workers received before the crisis hit. Labor Department statistics show half of full-time workers earned $957 or less a week in the first quarter of 2020.
The stimulus measure means many low-wage workers will avoid significant harm to their finances in the coming months. It puts money in consumers’ pockets and the U.S. economy on firmer footing to rebound once authorities allow businesses to reopen. But enhanced benefits also create disincentives that might hamper efforts by employers to recall workers when some states are trying to reopen their economies.
It’s becoming difficult to believe that this wasn’t done by design to destroy small businesses. Because if workers are making more by doing nothing through government checks, it doesn’t give them a whole lot of incentive to go back to work.
Small businesses need workers in order to function, but if the government is paying these workers more to do nothing, small businesses will have a tough time getting their workers back and could be forced to close.
Everything that’s been done has effectively been an attack on small businesses. Even a good amount of the aid that was meant for small businesses ended up going to large corporations. It just shows how corrupt and diabolical this whole system is.
And in the midst of this chaos, we have politicians trying to bring in communism in order to get millions of Americans relying on government handouts to eat and survive. All over a fake doomsday virus threat.
