Guest editorial: The Philadelphia Inquirer on evictions once moratorium ends
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There are two sides to this coin. While I sympathize with those in danger of being convicted, I also sympathize with landlords who must make mortgage, taxes and insurance payments in the meantime. Those tenants that can pay their rent should pay their rent or at least pay what they can.
I agree, Gary. That's why I support cash payments to help people pay their rent / mortgage. This is about to be a catastrophe - and it's completely avoidable. Open our treasury and take care of our people.
Open your pocketbook or purse and help these people, Bailey. It would be more effective without the legal red tape and the bureaucracy. Of every dollar from the "treasury" how many cents would actually help pay the rent?
Everything else is going to be free! Why should these people have to pay rent then? [wink].
Why do you think I pay taxes, Carlos, to provide $M salaries to government contractors? These people being evicted - they also pay taxes. Or at least they used to before the pandemic put them out of work.
What is the purpose of a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, if not to come to the aid of the people in their hour of greatest need?
So I interpret Bailey's comment as, " I already help the poor through my taxes so why should I give?" - Typical Liberal ideology.
Bailey, give a worthy individual $20 and $20 goes to pay the rent. Pay through taxes and of the $20 in taxes you paid, less than $1 goes to pay that person's rent.
"Pay through taxes and of the $20 in taxes you paid, less than $1 goes to pay that person's rent."
That's a pretty amazing claim, Carlos. I wonder why you believe it? Do you really believe that it costs the IRS (where CARES money comes from) $20,000 to send you a $1000 rent assistance check? $20,000 for each $1000 paycheck that goes to a service member? $20,000 for each $1000 social security check? Did your $1000 tax refund really cost $20,000 to print and mail?
Our government is inefficient at many things - building bombers, for instance - but it's very good at writing checks. The SSA overhead expenditures are 0.6%. (Actually down from 2% 50 years ago.) Even Medicare - which is an extremely complicated payout system requiring individually calculating every single claim has an overhead of just 1.4%. By comparison, another CARES check is simple.
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/admin.html
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/sep/20/bernie-s/comparing-administrative-costs-private-insurance-a/
So, to answer your question, for every dollar from the "treasury" how many cents would actually help pay the rent? Between 98.6 and 99.4 cents.
I recognize that your political and religious beliefs don't allow for a government that feeds the poor, heals the sick, clothes the naked, or houses the homeless - even in times of crisis, but mine do. In fact, mine require it. Open up the storehouses and let the people eat.
I'd totally agree Gary. Many landlords are about to default on the property's mortgage and lose them as well. If they can't get paying tenants moved in, these properties will end up in foreclosure, on the market, at hugely depressed prices. Its going to be bad. This was poor policy to go on this long. Without rental assistance, even more are going to be harmed by this poorly thought out policy.
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So all these BLACKS & HISPANICS who voted for Joe 75% are going to go homeless? That was not the promise made! They also told Al Sharpton that they were go to hand out Reparations, every last one of the DEMS swore they would do it! Now these poor people want what was promised, and I don't blame them .....anymore! JOE 80% Need to stand by his Word! We now have an over-flow of poor illegals crowding by the tens of thousands at the Southern Border to crash over the minute Joe 85% takes his oath, because of what he promised! They will be coming from all over the world, and somebody will feed them one way or another! Oh ...but lets kick the Americans already here out on their [censored]. What a country!!! What a nation!!!!
I am about as constitutionalist/conservative as you can imagine, but I am unwilling to see tens of billions of dollars go to Ratheon, Lockheed Martin, Boeing and the plethora of other military/industrial bottom feeders while small businesses and the working class in America are simply wiped out of existence. The financially right thing may be to rein in spending. I am all for that just as soon as the morally right thing of taking care of people who have been tossed overboard with a millstone around their neck is addressed.
We have a habit in this country of demanding fiscal prudence when the little guy has his hand out but going Full Monty philanthropist when it comes to the big fish. Time for a change of direction. Main Street America has subsisted for too long on the crumbs that Wall St, K Street and the rest of the insiders have left behind. They would love us to think the enemy is the small independent landlord who is struggling to pay the bills, too. Meanwhile, Big Pharma, the MIC, the insider-trading Congress and the soulless multi-nationals can be excused from the belt tightening.
Where is the justice?
Lift you eyes unto the hills. You'll see who we join
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Absolutely, Wayne. Agree completely
**Should read** Where is the justice? Lift you eyes unto the hills. You'll see who we jointly need to confront and who we need to comfort.
A fat thumb is a terrible thing to waste.
So glad you showed an unbiased local point of view.
Here's a nice summary of the relief bill, which includes $25B in rent relief.
https://apnews.com/article/health-care-reform-health-legislation-coronavirus-pandemic-e2cca37db8ff9357a65c9b933de4c47e
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