American deserves an annual Christmas bonus. Look, if there’s one thing that the debates over coronavirus relief have taught us, it’s that Americans really appreciate getting a check from the government. Maybe the whole idea of sending cash to around 85 percent of the country would have been less popular and more controversial in normal times, when we weren’t all coping with an economically catastrophic plague. But it turned to be so wildly and obviously popular this year that Congress essentially couldn’t help but add them to its second relief bill, after lawmakers toyed with leaving them out (which […]
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