OPINION

Look who's playing politics with aid

Posted 4/23/20

Treasury Department presses are rolling. They’re printing billions of dollars with no gold or anything else in support but the full faith and credit of the American people.

As you well know, …

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OPINION

Look who's playing politics with aid

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Treasury Department presses are rolling. They’re printing billions of dollars with no gold or anything else in support but the full faith and credit of the American people.
As you well know, that credit isn’t worth much now with millions of us out of work or quarantined in our homes, looking at our larders depleting daily.
As of last week, the billions in payroll protection and unemployment dollars was reportedly depleted and Congress has quarantined itself at home.
Far from Washington, they can’t even vote to put more phony billions in the funds. But when they return – when this will be is unknown – expect more grand larceny from our children and grandchildren.
As our own Sen. Tim Scott pointed out, instead of acting quickly to protect millions more jobs, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her Senate colleague Chuck Schumer want revisions to make the program more costly, complicated and confusing.
Congress should ensure the program is fair and available to everyone, Scott says. But the Democrats’ proposal would have the opposite effect.
1st, complicating the application process will slow requests and disbursing aid dollars.
2nd, their rule changes will divert vital resources already stretched in providing relief.
3rd, new regulations will raise, not reduce, small business costs. The Democrats plan mirrors what they pushed last year. 
According to analysis by the nonpartisan National Federation of Independent Businesses, that would have added more than $573 million in new costs and 13.2 million hours in new compliance burdens a year.
Families rely on the Paycheck Protection money, not more bureaucratic burdens. When the stakes are high, true leaders seek the common good, not millions for pet political projects such as the Kennedy Performing Arts Center and the National Endowment for the Arts.
These have nothing to do with the needs of the rest of us.
Do you agree or disagree? 
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