and restaurants were forced to close once again. any festive cheer turned into a painful hangover. schools shut their doors. travel ground to a halt. office workers settled down in spare rooms and on kitchen tables, to work from home once again. and for those who couldn t, and extended furlough scheme helped to prop up earnings. the scheme supported the wages of more than 11.7 million people and after it launched in march in 2020. but it came at a heavy price, and by the time the scheme was wound down in the summer it had cost more than £70 billion. but even then many firms feared it was being withdrawn too soon. many still were not able to operate at full capacity and warned that without financial help they could be forced to close. how confident are
that s the number they tout. it s a fake number of progress. fitting that they do these events now at the fake white house set that they have set up for joe biden so he can read a teleprompter. you mentioned it, will, a harvard economist pointed it out 11.7 million job openings in this country. and 7.7 million unemployed. so there s a job and a half for everybody who wants one. but they re choosing not to because of all the incentives not to. rachel: what are the incentives? why are people saying i don t want to go to work? pete: there has been plenty of unemployment benefits did run out. buff there have been plenty of additional benefits. and ultimately, now you have got mandates and covid other things coming into factors. people are making a personal calculation that it s not worth going back and getting a job. they think and by the way, this is a second month in a row. so if you look at august they were supposed to add 720,000, added 360. half of it, two really bad job numbers i
estate tax or as republicans like to call it, the death tax. the estate tax basically is a tax on the transfer of the estate of a tiny, tiny little group of extremely welty people when they die. it only kicks in when the estate is worth more than $11.7 million or more. think to yourself, do you have that much money? if you do, congratulations, but most of you don t. democrats want to close the loophole that lets wealthy people make money off their money, the vest the money and never have to pay taxes on those gains or pay at a much lower rate. and the usual suspects are coming out of the woodwork to oppose it. for decades, the had been this back and forth. liberals wanting to tax these estates and then an unholy trinities of conservatives, washington lobbyists and the ultra rich making sure billionaire heirs can keep every last cent. and in each round, you see the same bad faith arguments over and over again, like the debunked claim it will hurt
in early june, the phillies were enticing fans to come to the ballpark and accept a free vaccine by giving away free tickets, refreshments and a bobble head of their star pitcher aaron nola. and yet the paper reports that nola himself is one of the players who refused the vaccine calling it a personal choice. columnist marcus hayes noted buzz of kwquarantines and shutdowns it cost his employer two of his 34 starts this season for which he s being paid $11.7 million. further as the phillies continue their unlikely surge into the national league east title race, nola and his fellow anti-vaxers live each day with the possibility that they might not be available for upcoming games. usually at least five. but possibly as many as nine or ten depending on the schedule. the phillies haven t made the playoff this is a decade. they are 184 million payroll is the fifth highest in baseball.
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