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One causes "the base" to dig in even deeper in their support. The other makes people happen under subsequent administrations. Americans' addictions to cheap sugar doesn't end at literal donuts.

Often when people speak of healthcare reform, it’s spending more from the budget.

But otherwise yes, Defense, Medicare, and Social Security are the largest expenditures.

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Trump made sure that there was no mechanism to track any illegal activity related PPP grant program.

Don’t know about the OPs case, but forgiveness was based on meeting the requirements of the program: 60% of the loan to employees and 40% to approved employer expenses (business overhead such as rent and electricity).

I assisted with the submission of PPP forgiveness for 4 restaurants.

When the program was launched, there were ways of exempting from repayment, like not doing lay offs.

It’s hard to imagine that people really believe world leadership in science is just a meaningless line item to be culled to make political points, but here we are. It will definitely be worth it to someone in the long run, but undoubtedly not the American people.

> particular audience here is particularly vested in science industries in one form or another

That's literally everyone on planet earth. You are relying on science in every industry and it development in one way or another.

As noted elsewhere here, if you are only "saving money" by cutting programs you don't like then it's not about saving money -- it's about gutting programs you don't like.

There are large chunks of government money that are effectively investments in the future, and it's important to recognize that as each budget is evaluated.

Awesome! This makes browsing funner. I am shocked how many PPP loans went out - it's almost every single business in some places. I had no idea.

I’d posit that $3.5m is a drop in the bucket when compared to the $600 _billion_ budget of the program itself. Linking to a law firm blog isn’t doing any favors if you’re trying to present yourself as objective here. It seems disingenuous and pretty transparently ideologically motivated to try and make a shaky connection to pastor abuse, truthfully I think you can do better.

>and the people who really needed the help often got stiffed.

Just one anecdata, but we (family business) were "people who really needed the help" and got approved for PPP, both times. You needed to be fairly timely on applying because of the absurd demand, though.

We had to file paperwork including our payroll, income/loss sheets and more with our bank (not SBA) who actually did most of the groundwork because any PPP loan not forgiven is on the bank's dime.

The purpose of running the money through employers via PPP was to ensure the socioeconomic rankings didn’t change, so that employees still needed their employers.

Giving everyone more cash with no strings attached would have given them more negotiating power against employers.

I looked for my family's businesses and other old friends and didn't find any of them. Texted my parents about this and they sound as surprised as me, and they have had a small local business for about a decade before Covid. My mom wasn't even aware that they would be eligible. And yet I see individuals, and others in my hometown whose businesses consist of only them and possibly one other person (likely part-time) made out with tens of thousands of dollars, all forgiven. Self-employed and sole proprietorships even. One family who I was always suspicious about how they always had whatever disposable money was needed for anything (the primary income was a local vending machine business) got $187k in this, according to this site. All forgiven.

I found one address nearby that has a "Christian Ministries" listed at the top and 28 business and individual names below it, 1 loan each.

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