Tens of thousands of families in Florida will receive checks for $450 to help them cope with inflation in emerged on Friday after Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration announced it will use federal COVID relief funds to pay for the program.
Some 59,000 families are expected to benefit in time for the new school year.
'To offset the costs of rising inflation, especially with a new school year approaching, the State of Florida is giving you $450 for each child in your care,' reads a letter from DeSantis that goes out with the checks.
'This one-time payment can be used for anything from buying diapers to fueling up at the pump.'
The Governor has not minced words about this administration - he's has made clear that he blames the Biden administration's economic mismanagement for rising costs.
And it is latest example of the way DeSantis - who is running for reelection in Florida this way - has managed to insert himself into the national debate as he eyes a possible 2024 presidential run.
The money is part of a program called Hope Florida, let by the state's first lady Casey DeSantis.
Her office recently announced that the checks would cost some $35 million, drawn from the $1 billion the state received from the American Rescue Plan Act.
He runs a well-funded, well-run State that has a constitutionally mandated balanced budget - with a surplus a State tax income - and so we don't need the money here to run the Government. He knows it would be genuinely stupid to send the money back to the Fed (even if he could which he probably can't, but that's a story for another day). What better way to use the money than to help the people of our State. Has any other Governor done anything like this for his/her constituents? No fuckin' way.
This guy would make a GREAT President. There - I said it.
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What he is doing is called "WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION". Giving away tax dollars from those who pay taxes to people that don't pay any taxes and overwhelming support Democrats.
ReplyDeletestill better than giving it back to the Fed
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