A thing that bothers me about a lot of the "they're an evil company, no bailouts for them" discourse that's been on twitter recently is that bailouts/emergency support is supposed to be preventing a large disaster not using congress/public opinion to pick winners and losers.
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If a $2 Trillion stimulus isn't the smallest intervention you can make to prevent the disaster then it's just looting the treasury, and if you're ok with the bill, but think Cruise Ships shouldn't get help then you're ok with the looting, just not by them.
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2 isses. 1) One may think that some industries are more essential. 2) Most cruise ships are registered outside the US. May not want a precedent that we'll bail out corps that are skirting US laws (although the laws which incentivize non-US registration are pretty bad.)
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I know when I want to do a crack down on tax and labor law evasion, the right time is in the middle of a unrelated largest national emergency in decades
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