Mark Cuban proposes $1,000
coronavirus stimulus check every 2 weeks
Fox Business,
by
Megan Henney
Original Article
Posted By: AltaD,
5/18/2020 3:17:32 PM
The federal government has already sent a one-time check of up to $1,200 to millions of American families, but according to Mark Cuban, the stimulus is not enough to offset the economic pain of the coronavirus pandemic.
The billionaire entrepreneur proposed the government issue $1,000 checks to every American household every two weeks for the next two months, with the caveat that the money must be spent within 10 days of receipt or it expires. It would cost about $500 billion, Cuban estimated. (Snip) "It's time to face the fact that PPP didn't work. Great plan, difficult execution. No one's fault. The only thing that will save businesses is consumer demand.
How about, everything's open except for senior homes, hospitals, and care centers.
Get rid of the masks, the social distancing and open up everything. Masks don't work. The N95 allows any virus in under .3 microns. The rona is .125 microns so it goes right through. The distancing part doesn't really work either.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 5/18/2020 3:31:33 PM (No. 414952)
Easy for him to say. It’s always a East thing to do to suggest spending tax dollars on something. There is no end to all of the good things it can be spent on in the name of helping people out.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
LanceLink1 5/18/2020 3:34:07 PM (No. 414954)
He's pretty generous with other peoples money. Those people being the taxpayer. Plus the gooberment doesn't have that kind of dough. So let's dig the debt canyon deeper so that $1000 buys a bagel and a cup of coffee. What could go wrong?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
marbles 5/18/2020 3:42:33 PM (No. 414962)
How generous of him, I didn't know he had that much money.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Penney 5/18/2020 3:49:27 PM (No. 414966)
Those who are rushing out to give away taxpayers' cash before this all proves to be a political scam are not to be trusted.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
judy 5/18/2020 4:02:14 PM (No. 414970)
Cuban is a a creepy democrat that Fox's
loves...
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Nimby 5/18/2020 4:08:28 PM (No. 414973)
Awww!! Why don’t you give away your hard earned $$$ Mark? Other people’s money is easy to spend, not your own
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 5/18/2020 4:12:00 PM (No. 414977)
Cuban likes spending other people's money.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
paral04 5/18/2020 4:13:50 PM (No. 414980)
Is he going to pay for those checks?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
StormCnter 5/18/2020 4:14:01 PM (No. 414981)
Here in Texas, we've been dealing with publicity-hound, Mark Cuban for years. None of us knows why he believes his opinion is of any merit or is wanted by those who are forced to listen. So, he's made a lot of money. Hooray for him. So, he has built a terrific professional basketball team. Neither of those accomplishments make his opinion on how this country should be run worth any more than my own opinion.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Phantomll 5/18/2020 4:27:20 PM (No. 414988)
A billion here, a billion there...
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
seamusm 5/18/2020 4:39:13 PM (No. 414994)
Mark, the first round is on you.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
bpl40 5/18/2020 4:40:26 PM (No. 414996)
No such thing as a free lunch. Better idea, the withdrawal is voluntary and comes out of your Social Security account. Whenever your SS payment is calculated the amount will reflect these withdrawals.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Clinger 5/18/2020 4:40:35 PM (No. 414998)
Let's do that Mark and keep doing it until we eradicate ourselves of that pesky Kulak Middle Class and are left with the uber rich elites like you who can run everything, and the poor.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Skinnydip 5/18/2020 4:41:25 PM (No. 415000)
How would they know if you “spent” it? What if you saved it? I guess Cuban (please bow down before him) meant cash or deposit it. Or more likely, just poor reporting.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
skacmar 5/18/2020 4:44:30 PM (No. 415001)
Cuban says PPP didn't work???? Why, because people are not allowed to go out to closed stores / businesses to spend money or to go to work to earn money! Businesses could not or were not allowed to reopen so were unable to bring back employees to either earn money or sell product. Every time I hear a politician or someone like Cuban say "Just send everyone some money to make up for being stuck at home", they fail to account for the fact that everything is being forced to be closed so there is no place to buy stuff. What don't they get?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 5/18/2020 4:51:33 PM (No. 415008)
Ok, Mark. Show me YOUR money that will pay for this.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
bad-hair 5/18/2020 5:04:17 PM (No. 415020)
How about 2 grand a month and free season tickets to the Dallas Whatever your basketball team's name is. I think Mark's NBA cashflow is a bit off and he's sweating.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
RedWhiteBlue 5/18/2020 5:20:39 PM (No. 415035)
I never could stand this guy...big ego, megalomaniac, etc. When he's on I'm off somewhere else!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Pathcoin1 5/18/2020 5:28:17 PM (No. 415041)
I think this is a good idea. Once a society decides to have a welfare system, then it has a moral obligation to help anyone caught in exigent circumstances. The mechanics are simple: send out debit cards to everyone who filed income tax.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
anniebc 5/18/2020 5:34:18 PM (No. 415049)
Cuban woke up and thought his dream of being king of America was real. Shut up!
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
clayusmcret 5/18/2020 5:38:24 PM (No. 415052)
I agree. Mark Cuban should pay all households $1000 a week as long as the crisis continues, until he's broke. And then Bezos, Gates and all of the other dem-supporting billionaires can pick up the responsibility, one at a time, until they're all broke. If they want to support democrat policies, let them jump in with both feet.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Anti_democRAT 5/18/2020 5:43:20 PM (No. 415057)
my 1200 check went to partially cover my property taxes within 2 days of deposit. no stimulus there.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Avanti1 5/18/2020 5:44:37 PM (No. 415059)
It is very generous of Mr. Cuban to offer his money for this purpose.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Highvoltage 5/18/2020 5:57:58 PM (No. 415073)
Cuban is nothing else if he is not good at ideas for spending everyone else money. He wants so much to have political power but he is not smart enough to bring it about. He is a scary person. Just look in his eyes.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
GO3 5/18/2020 5:58:42 PM (No. 415074)
Glad you brought up the mask thing #1. A couple things. First, as you said the corona virus is extremely small, 0.06 microns to 0.12 microns. The mask being able to filter out 0.3 microns is nowhere mentioned in the documentation from the manufacturer, in our case, 3M, for our N95 masks. I'd like to know where that figure came from because it's been repeated all over the place. Second, 3M warns users this is for non-hazardous materials, and will not stop vapors, odors or oil droplets. Third, their is no airtight seal with the mask as with a military NBC protective mask, the M50. Speaking of the M50, this is the only way I know of to get the protection everybody thinks they get with an N95, or any of these designer pieces of cloth they advertise on this site. It has an airtight seal, its filters handle known bacteria and viruses, and it has an additional electro-static material to capture anything which get through the basic filters. Wearing the cloth and paper thing, especially outside is near useless.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 5/18/2020 6:03:40 PM (No. 415081)
Start writing the checks my man... Nobody is stopping you... I'll message you my home address!
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
NYbob 5/18/2020 7:03:47 PM (No. 415117)
The first comment here is the first thing and only plan that should have been done, around the world. Common sense is so rare, but not that hard if you don't have a self serving agenda. #1 for head of everything in DC.
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Every two weeks??????
Sheesh I still haven't gotten the first check. IRS site said it isn't even scheduled to go out until May 22. The government can't even hand out free money efficiently.
It's silly to send out money indiscriminately. That $2000 twice weekly would go to people like Cuban, who don't need it, and to the deceased, which the IRS is sending the first round of checks to.
Just open up the economy! That's the greatest stimulus we could do.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
udanja99 5/18/2020 7:22:18 PM (No. 415137)
#11, I think you got the spelling wrong. It should be a Trillion here, a Trillion there.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
udanja99 5/18/2020 7:27:28 PM (No. 415142)
I just read the rest of the replies so I need to add this to #’s 1 and 27...
I had my annual physical today and was require to wear a mask the whole time I was at the doctor’s office. I haven’t been wearing one at all for several weeks now. I was there for over an hour and by the time I left the building I felt like I had been sitting in a rain forest breathing wet air. Seems to me that all that moisture building up inside the mask would make it the perfect place for all kinds of bacteria to grow. NOT doing that again.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
jar 5/18/2020 8:00:20 PM (No. 415166)
Since the government can't afford this program, why don't the Forbes 500, or at least the top wealthiest, such as Bezos, Gates, Buffet, etc. pony up a few billions that add up to a trillion or more, and pay us all out of their excess holdings? They'll never miss it.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 5/18/2020 8:32:33 PM (No. 415188)
Good one OP.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
bogeegolf 5/18/2020 8:50:08 PM (No. 415205)
Yes#32. That is why I will live with my cataracts for as long as it takes to ensure i will not have to wear a mask for the three doctor visits required for a physical, having them removed and the follow up exam. Besides the discomfort I want no part in this whole charade.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 5/18/2020 8:51:45 PM (No. 415207)
He ought to give his own employees access to 401k plans.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Grounded 5/18/2020 9:52:56 PM (No. 415247)
I didn't get no stinkin' PPP check. Self employed. So I just deemed myself an essential worker and kept on working. As a consequence I've earned many times the paltry $1200 the goobermint is spreading around.
I asked my accountant the other day why bother filing and paying income taxes if the Feds can print all the money they need.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Safari Man 5/18/2020 9:53:21 PM (No. 415248)
Did he not get the memo? The coronavirus is history. All this crud with masks and plexiglass and tape on the floor is just a fig leaf for the governors to make us think there still is a threat, but there never really was an existential threat that warranted the overreaction we've had. Everyone just rip off your mask and carry on with your life. We're fine and we never really were in that much danger, en masse.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
MaryPA 5/18/2020 10:53:16 PM (No. 415284)
Let the people work!
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 5/18/2020 10:56:16 PM (No. 415289)
Sometimes you wonder how this guy became so wealthy. Seems everything out of his mouth is pure s.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 5/18/2020 11:36:54 PM (No. 415317)
Cuban's a nasty one. Google's scrubbed his past. Talk about "me too" showing him literally with his pants down. They're out there and if he ever runs for office they'll come out.
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So he is doubling Yang's plan ? How generous of him. Is he giving it to "households" or per person ?
Will all of the millionaires and billionaires in this country put their money where their mouth is ? Put up or shut up.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/19/2020 2:26:22 AM (No. 415406)
"Stimulus" has been a dirty word since 2008 when Bathhouse Barry perfected the process of giving money away that we didn't have to people who really knew how to waste it. We need to call it something else such as "Barry Bucks" in honor of our first illegal president.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
kono 5/19/2020 2:34:01 AM (No. 415410)
Don't save people's jobs, just make them dependent on government, instead. That's basically what he's saying.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
kono 5/19/2020 2:35:16 AM (No. 415412)
Call it Trickle-Up Economics.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
Trigger2 5/19/2020 2:52:38 AM (No. 415418)
More FREE money!
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I'm all for this, if Cuban is the one signing the checks.