about whether or not you know democrats can get through this build back better act. which a lot wanted to direct this, it feels like it s about this. i remember you and i talked almost a year ago about the restaurant act and having to try to help people at every level of the food chain. you need to make sure the restaurant workers can still work. the people that do the meat packing can work and it all kind of works. there was some help for people back then and ppp, et cetera. now, how are we having this fight to extend let s say the child tax credit. give people more money to buy food with. does it strike you as insane we are sill dithering whether or not to spend more money to make
rules after they had issued the loans for who had to pay them back, and created all kinds of safe harbors for firms who didn t restore employment, and gave actually extraordinary tax benefits to the recipients of the loans, businesses, not the workers so that they could use that money and deduct expenses against it, all business expenses, yet they didn t have to treat as business income. they actually got a tax credit in addition to the money. and that was extraordinarily wasteful and added an additional hundred billion dollars to the cost of the program in the fore gone tax revenue in addition to the billion dollars in 2020, and another couple hundred billion in 2021. i talk to small businesses every day. restaurants call me all the time saying we need the government to give more money. we know there was the restaurant act, it was $30 billion, but we didn t get it. there was the restaurant act, ppp, there was all sorts of aid, are we forgetting now coming out
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this, it feels like it s about this. i remember you and i talked almost a year ago about the restaurant act and having to try to help people at every level of the food chain. you need to make sure the restaurant workers can still work. the people that do the meat packing can work and it all kind of works. there was some help for people back then and ppp, et cetera. now, how are we having this fight to extend let s say the child tax credit. give people more money to buy food with. does it strike you as insane we are sill dithering whether or not to spend more money to make sure that people can get, you know, three square meals a day? i think it s beyond insane. if you and i have talked about this so many times. i ve used the word criminal when we talk about hunger. it is not a problem that we don t have a solution to. we have enough food in america. we don t have the political will to actually change the laws. when you just talk about
democrats can get through this build back better act, which a lot of what it addresses feels like it s about this. i remember you and i talked almost a year ago now about the restaurant act and having to like try to help people at every level of the food chain. you need to make sure that the restaurant workers can still work, that the people who do the meatpacking can still work and making sure it all kind of works. and there was some help for people back then and ppp, et cetera. but now it s like how are we having this fight about whether to extend, let s say, the child tax credit, give people a little more money to buy food with? does it strike you as just insane that we are still dithering about whether or not to spend more money to make sure that people can get three square meals a day? i think it s beyond insane. you and i have talked about this so many times. i ve used the word criminal when we talk about hunger. it is not a problem that we don t have a solution to. we have eno