Biden repeatedly stated that taxes would not be raised on families making less than $400k a year.
You do know there is a pandemic going on right? This has devastated the service economy because we have been acting like we have not understood virus/bacteria and the like for decades.
We need to figure out how to do things differently as a society. You think we would have learned with 60,000 people dying of a flu each year to not breath in each other's bodily fluids by now, but 350k+ dying from this virus unfotuntly is showing us the very real dangers of this.
They can't unless they have a lot of wealth backing them up. That is why Trump and the Republican's lack of a response has been so devastating. Our economy is fucked. We needed a strong federal response to this disaster, but Trump and the Republicans let it crumble (just like they did in 2008 right before Obama took office).
It sucks that they did this to us again.
But since they are legislating for only one demographic who has enough money to snatch up all those struggling loans on the cheap, economic collapses are really in their favor.
Again, pandemic.
How are your hospital's bed capacity doing? Do you think having a bunch of random people who are under the impression it is safe to travel coming into your community would change that?
Pandemics suck. I really wish that people would have not been brainwashed into thinking holding super spreader events was a good idea.
Hopefully once Biden and the Democrats can get some actual stimulus and the vaccine is deployed wide enough we can get back to normal.
Stay safe.
Like I said previously, your posts are too long for me to sensibly respond to each point on an Android tablet that acts up with large text quotes. You had a chart posted with ICU numbers.
Look at many of the Northern Michigan hospitals listed. Their covid numbers in ICU are ZERO. The people in those that have anyone in ICU are likely heart attacks or cancer patients who were denied surgeries during Whitmer's insane lockdown. I was diagnosed with diabetes just a week before the lockdowns. I was denied medication and medical care for three months when my follow up appointments were cancelled when the clinic first shut down then had to reschedule all patients. Due to being diagnosed with diabetes, I needed to see my eye doctor to check if diabetes was affecting my vision. They refused to schedule an appointment all year, I am finally getting in next week. 10 months later. My vision seems to be failing.
All dental offices were shut down. I had all dental appointments cancelled.
No doubt Detroit areas have higher infection rates with all those BLM protests of super spreaders. Whitmer was right there with them.
From the chart you had posted before my battery died, Otsego county hospital. Zero covid cases in ICU.
The $87,000 came from the sale of my Arizona home. I had almost paid that home off also. I had it built new in 1995 for $96,000, put $20,000 down. 15 year mortgage after doing no cost refi from a 30 year mortgage. Had it almost paid off when I sold. Sold for $156,000 at the market low. Took the profits and put on my lake cabin in Michigan on a smaller Island. Not a great house but I bought it as I needed a temporary home and figured I would gamble on it going up in price. I could make a nice profit if I could sell today after nine years from purchase. I'm currently involved in litigation concerning an estate involving over $1,000,000 in stocks and cash which I am supposed to inherit over $250,000 from.
Other than mortgages I never take out loans. The last vehicle I bought was new off the lot in 2002, I still drive it. It cost $26,000 new, I paid it off in one year. I don't like owing money.
I have over $250,000 in a Vanguard account. I have a pension from the government, I retired on my 50th birthday and start collecting Social Security with my first check this month which is around $1,500 a month. My pension is around $2,400 a month before I get Social Security but my actual pension gets cut by about $650 a month once SS starts.
That gives me something like $48,000 a year in retirement pay starting this month. Once the estate is settled I will get additional income from my Vanguard investments, currently I could take out $10,000 a year for my life likely. Then from the stocks I get from the estate when settled another $10,000 a year. Around $68,000 a year not working again.
I had mandatory retirement at 57 due to a hazardous government job where life expectancy was low. I didn't expect to live to 62 as few of my co-workers made it that long. Many dying just before or after retirement age. None who worked until 57 to 62.
