Comments by "Brandon M" (@brandonm949) on "AOC Reacts To Biden's Weak Infrastructure Plan" video.

  1. The family would be more like your customer, not your employee. You're providing a service to them. Plus face painting is outside the normal operations of a family, so it wouldn't count anyway. Now if a birthday party provider hired you to do face painting for the parties they provide, they'd have to hire you as an employee.
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  2. Sure, but progressives actually care when a relief bill is delayed, and Joe Manchin doesn't. This infrastructure bill is a different story. It's very delayable.
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  3. Why is that bad? We are working with Democrats, because we need their votes to pass anything.
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  4. The little guys end up hurt because of cronyism, not fiscal policy. Those are two different issues. As for the debt, I keep hearing about what a big crisis it is, and it keeps getting bigger and bigger, but nothing bad seems to be happening because of it. So I'm not super convinced that it's a real problem. And my understanding of MMT is that you only need to stop deficit spending/printing new money if inflation gets too high. So far it's been pretty normal.
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  5.  @BigR376  I certainly hope that's true. The main problem is the loopholes.
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  6. I assume that infrastructure package got stalled in the Senate, no? I'm pretty sure it never got to Trump.
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  7. They were passing an urgent bill to give relief to millions of Americans. You don't think blocking either of the COVID bills would've been terrible optics? Now, an infrastructure bill - that's the kind of thing you can really stall.
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  8. Those job numbers are way off. Most of those 70 million jobs came back, and the 500,000 is probably new unemployment claims, not jobs lost. I assume unemployment has to be re-claimed; I don't know why the weekly numbers are so high. According to the monthly BLS reports, the number of employed people has gone down 8.5 million since last February, and job openings have decreased by 200k, so that's 8.7 million lost jobs. 2.3 million new jobs would be significant.
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  9. For corporate tax rate? I'd believe 30%. Honestly, our biggest problem is the loopholes, not the tax rate itself.
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  10. The chyron mentions it at 2:25. $111 billion for water pipe replacement.
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  11. The big worry is inflation. As long as inflation is low (which it has been so far), you can basically spend whatever you need to.
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  12. Who determines what people have earned?
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  13. The $1.9 trillion COVID bill that got passed was really solid. I, for one, am enjoying Spendy Biden.
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