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Re:How This Ends by ModernMech on Sunday May 22, 2022 @02:07PM (#31471039)

> but others were complete wastes of money, e.g. giving checks to families making 6 figures

Remember that the cutoff for stimulus was from prior year's taxes. This means you could have been making 6 figures in 2019, and then be making significantly less due to covid job loss or reduction when stimulus was handed out. As a matter of fact, stimulus helped my family greatly even though we made 6 figures in 2019. So following through on your claim would have meant my family suffering. YMMV.

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Re:How This Ends by another_story on Sunday May 22, 2022 @08:14PM (#31474113)

If you're making 6 figures you should have a decent sized emergency fund if you live in an excessively high CoL area, no?

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Re:How This Ends by ModernMech on Sunday May 22, 2022 @11:22PM (#31475044)

Should is the operative word there. One could be in school for a while deeply in debt for a decade, get a 6 figure job in a high COL area right after graduating, then lose that job due to covid within a year. How would they have a decent sized emergency fund saved up? Why would such a family not be deserving of relief?

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