Republicans are invested in Trump's re-election, and in sustaining America’s aberrantly right-wing version of capitalism in perpetuity. Their penny-pinching approach to aiding small businesses jeopardizes both. EricLevitz writes
Do better. Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images Between Sunday and Thursday of last week, 4,815 people applied for unemployment benefits in Ohio. Since Sunday of this week, 139,468 have.
And if Senate Republicans get their way, a hefty percentage of America’s small businesses are about to die in their sleep. But if this cruel stance on cash assistance is the bill’s most execrable provision, it isn’t necessarily the most irrational one. After all, the GOP has never evinced much concern for whether the neediest Americans can afford to eat multiple times a day. Republicans are, however, very much invested in extending Donald Trump’s presidency for another four years, and sustaining America’s aberrantly right-wing version of capitalism in perpetuity.
These conservative wonks understand that spending trillions of dollars to keep America’s businesses on life support is the small-government solution to the impending crisis. If firms are allowed to fail en masse — and their workers left to scatter in the wind — more-expensive and longer-term government income support will be required than if Uncle Sam spends what it takes to keep existing enterprises in the black.
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