“HB 211 is a debt trap. It creates a population of people who are, by definition, unable to pay. And then converts that inability into a labor obligation,” Michael Ryan, a finance expert and founder of MichaelRyanMoney.com, told Newsweek. “The ‘streets to success’ framing is deliberate misdirection. No legitimate treatment program requires the patient to work off their bill under threat of incarceration."
I’m morbidly fascinated by how carefully this article avoids using the obvious term. But slavery. It’s slavery. It is a bill that would literally, legally, enslave a population (of predominantly Black men, fucking surprise) for the “crime” of being poor.
I agree with everything you wrote except the PPP fraud. IIRC that was all forgiven under Biden, and all the real perpetrators were businesses. They’re absolutely coming for Section 8 people and those on food stamps before the new rules kicked most off, next.
No no no, the Trump admin has been and still is absolutely cracking down on that… its so common that youtubers are making compilations of tiktokkers who very obviously abused it, and are now going to prison.
Yeah, definitely a whole bunch of actual businesses did PPP fraud… but they tend to have enough money to at least hire a lawyer/accountant, if not bribe Trump in some way.
The other half of that was people … just making up businesses (llcs) out of nothing, on the spot, that do nothing… or, don’t even actually exist. Or, they registered their PPP loans using friends/family’s personal or business information.
… And fairly often, they video’d the entire thing, and the proceeds of it, on tiktok.
What goes along better with the image of kicking deadbeat scammers and leeches to the curb than going after boisterous idiots who publicized their own crimes in hd video?
oh, wow. I was completely unaware of that aspect of it. I will research that now. Thank you for correcting me.