by Hank Berrien
Daily Wire
On Monday, Massachusetts Democrat Senator Ed Markey, in an attempt to exhibit largesse in the most hyperbolic manner possible, garner mass approval and launch the American economy into oblivion, tweeted, “Give every person in our country $2000/month for the duration of the pandemic, $2000/month for 3 months after that, and $2000/month retroactive to March.”
Give every person in our country $2000/month for the duration of the pandemic, $2000/month for 3 months after that, and $2000/month retroactive to March.
— Ed Markey (@EdMarkey) August 10, 2020
That economically illiterate suggestion was countered by Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), who took Markey’s hyperbolic suggestion and took it to the extreme to point out how crazy the idea was. Cruz tweeted, “Why be so cheap? Give everyone $1 million a day, every day, forever. And three soy lattes a day. And a foot massage. We have a magic money tree — we should use it!”