Comments by "" (@timogul) on "Fox News"
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@drawingdead9025 State governments were blasted by the covid crisis. They built their budgets based on reasonable predictions of their expected tax income over a normal year, just as if a regular person bought a house and car based on their current income level.
The covid crisis massively reduced their tax revenues, since businesses and taxpayers were making a lot less money, while at the same time their costs increased massively, in that they had to increase subsidies to public services, they had to pay for emergency relief, increased unemployment costs, etc.
Of course states need money (and red states more than blue, if you care about such things).
So of course it makes sense for the federal government, which can much more easily appropriate funds, to help keep these stats stable through the crisis, so that they don't have to lay off millions of employees and cut vital services like police and fire.
Why shouldn't they?
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@privateuser7 I did already, you can find more answers upthread, but basically it goes into things like enhancing unemployment payouts, keeping schools open and safe, vaccine programs, keeping state governments functioning (so that they in turn can keep policing, firefighting, pothole repairs, etc.), food programs for needy families, etc. You can find breakdowns of what the bill provides online if you don't want to read it yourself or listen to Senate Pages read it for you.
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