Thank you @RepAndreCarson @RepCohen @RepEliotEngel and @RepBarragan for cosponsoring this legislation with me.
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I'm introducing the Essential Pay for Essential Workers Act. It would pay essential workers an additional $15/hr in compensation on top of regular pay, recognizing the higher risk of infection for those workers required to keep critical facilities running.https://watsoncoleman.house.gov/newsroom/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1676 …
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Let’s see how you define essential workers
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The bill broadly defines essential work based on the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) guidelines for critical infrastructure. The workers provide services in: Healthcare Food and agriculture Energy Water and wastewater Transportation Public works ...
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Can you please explain where this money is going to come from for small businesses considered "critical manufacturing"? Our volume of business has not increased, if anything it has gone down, and many of us were shut out of the PPP.
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The employer provides the $15 per hour cost upfront and it's treated as a 100% tax credit
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We need to figure out how Amazon will pay taxes, then GO GOR IT.
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Wouldn't have time to implement something like a VAT tax and then pay workers. They need money now.
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Where is the extra $15 coming from?
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I wish I could put a serious tag on this because I'm genuinely curious... Not trolling
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Great, but it's 2 days late & $1 short. They only start thinking about putting forward policies that help the people, after the've spent all of the money they're going to spend on a problem & when help can be denied by saying, "How can we afford it?" Who still falls for this?
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