During the Depression FDR took radical action to save millions of people; today the only radical action is to save huge multi-billion dollar companies. The physical destructiveness of Covid will be followed by financial destructiveness beyond our imagining if this does not change
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Those multi-billion dollar companies are the people making the stuff we eat, wear, live in and use. Oh, and pay the taxes you love so much.
The money is not going to any of the things you mentioned; the bailout comes with no requirement that they pay their workers. And their taxes at this point are outrageously low.
