Perhaps, but unlikely. The optics are very bad for the plaintiffs and for SCOTUS as well.
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Well, it wouldn’t be ineffective for the wealthy. And the GOP doesn’t give a rat’s ass about anyone but.
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They can still have their tax cuts, they just can’t use pandemic relief money to pay for them.
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They are imitating their NPD deity.
Won’t work.
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The G in GQP stands for grift
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If you don’t like the terms, don’t take the money. This is still far fewer limitations than these same states put on poor folks attempting to get public assistance.
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Funny how they have no problems dictating that zero federal dollars given to states can go to Planned Parenthood but now when it comes to the federal government stating that it can’t go to tax cuts they lose their shit…
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But it’s disguised:
“You would be looking at a very large tax cut for businesses that are trying to reopen in this state, which I think would be very stimulus in nature.”
(This last week from someone in Florida.)
See their counter-argument above.
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Bunch of whinny-agged beoches.
They know that their constituents know the money is there to help and can’t just turn it away.
Drum up phony States Rights issue to cry the blues.
Funny, I don’t remember this much whining when FEMA and Federal Disaster Relief came after Hurricane and other damaging storms.
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The GOP and the RWNJ propaganda machine is in a spiral…someone is going to have to turn this off.
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The Feds should with hold the money from those states until they comply with the law. Or the Feds should make the payments directly to the hospitals, schools, and communities with out letting the states distribute the money. I wonder how those states small businesses will feel about getting the help they need to keep those businesses open?
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Please proceed, Republican states!
I’ll get boatloads of popcorn ready while you run campaigns in (what you think are) ruby red states, defending why local communities can be left to struggle while you fight for the right to punish them further so your wealthy contributors can reap benefits from the damage.
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I know I should be angry and disgusted, and I’m sure I’ll get there, but right now I feel a great bemusement–where do they find these morons?
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Exactly this. They should have to prove they can spend that tax cut money responsibly first, and not fritter it away on typical republican vices like insurrection.
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Continuation of my last post:
There are 10000 crimes that Trump and the GOP should answer for. The Justice System we have in the U.S. is very slow and deliberate (especially for $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ people).
These fuckers are taking full advantage of THAT.
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Dems better be getting ads ready right now "$$ millions given to your state to help with vaccine distribution. $$ millions provided for your state and local government that was affected economically because of Covid, to help prevent service cuts to your police, fire and municipal services. Now, your Republican representatives are saying “NO! We don’t want the money unless we can cut taxes for BUSINESS!” Heck, they want to defund the police to give the money to their pals in big business.
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We can hope!
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Personally, I could stand being a little wrong in this regard…
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But,
" Republicans have argued that Biden’s relief package is too broad and too expensive. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, [has called it “too costly, too corrupt and too liberal.”
“Whenever their long-time liberal dreams came into conflict with what Americans actually need right now, Democrats decided their ideology should win out,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said this week"
These AGs want some of this "too expensive,corrupt,liberal money ?
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Yes. There’s a well established principle in education aid from Washington: since the 1960’s it has held that federal money should be used to “supplement, not supplant” state and local funding. No one has ever argued with that.
States can always refuse the federal funds and cut away to their hearts’ content.
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