Senate may not pass coronavirus paid sick leave anytime soon because GOP opposes sick leave costs...

Maj Marty Hogan - We just need to make people like Bloomberg and Bevos and their multi-billion dollar industries pay their fair share of taxes at the appropriate tax rate to help cover the costs of all these relief efforts and financial bailouts for small businesses (large corporations can fend for themselves by cutting the salaries of their executives before laying off low level employees). I'm not going to criticize too much the businesses with less than 500 or even 100 employees asking for financial assistance since many of them have been competing at a disadvantage with much larger corporations. Situations vary but we can acknowledge the business that struggles providing routine benefits, employer provided healthcare, or $15/hr wages will most likely layoff an employee before giving them paid time off for self-quarantining or take care of an ill child for 14 calendar days probably need assistance.
Many parents are probably like me routinely depended on an older relative like grandparents and in-laws to help watch with sick children; obviously that's not an option these days.

MAJ James Woods - I have always wanted to see a flat tax. All should pay their fair share- lots of small mom and pop places will close because of this. Tragic, but reflective of the strongest survive. I have several friends that are small business guys- half are worried half are not. Dreams will be shattered- they were already fretting the $15 an hour minimum wage. Our area has to start around $10+ to be competitive or employees go to Taco Johns and start for $11.50.

I plan on helping my mom and mom-in-law however we need. Already buying groceries and not letting them go anywhere. This is the time for communities to take care of their own. Will see who helps- thinking the FB rhetoric on open boarders and love for all is only a posting. We shall see. Stay safe brother and wash your hands.

Maj Marty Hogan - The strongest survive implies those big corporations never should've received a taxpayer funded bailout during the auto industry crash, mortgage finance crash, and Wall Street crash. True capitalism would've let them fail and allow the competitor that survived replace them. But political lobbying intervened.

MAJ James Woods - yep

I'm sure the House GOP wouldn't have overwhelmingly supported the bill (other than 40 of them) if they saw it fiscally irresponsible...right? Supposedly the bill intends to expand unemployment compensation as result of layoffs, guaranteed paid sick leave, provisions to help feed children and homebound senior citizens, a payroll tax cut, bailout for airlines and select other small businesses, and bolster Medicaid funding and emergency childcare for healthcare workers. I can see how a couple of those items don't sit well with me but most do to help shore up financial instability of many workers being impacted.

"supposedly" being the operative word. This should be focused only on a response to the pandemic. We should all be able to agree on that. All of the other stuff are regulations and costs being hoisted on businesses and others that need a real debate.

MSgt Steve Sweeney - Please forgive me Rallypoint Gods, Sweeney Todd is just being an ass to Jeff as usual. There is a better chance of Sweeney voting for Trump than being respectful to Jeff.

MAJ Byron Oyler - Sweeney is just a gnat. He buzzes around, nothing to really add. He isn't even a sand flea, just a gnat, no teeth at all.

It seems he looks for anything I post and takes a contrarian position. Probably caused by a lifetime of not measuring up. You are correct though, there is a better chance he would vote Trump than agree with me. if he ever agreed with anything I posted the site might crash so we need to keep that in mind.