Rep. Ocasio-Cortez demands new economic responses to the spread of the coronavirus in the United States, which includes universal basic income.

“This is not the time for half measures. We need to take dramatic action now to stave off the worst public health & economic affects,” AOC tweeted on Thursday morning. “That includes making moves on paid leave, debt relief, waiving work req’s, guaranteeing healthcare, UBI, detention relief (pretrial, elderly, imm).”

This is not the time for half measures.

We need to take dramatic action now to stave off the worst public health & economic affects.

That includes making moves on paid leave, debt relief, waiving work req’s, guaranteeing healthcare, UBI, detention relief(pretrial, elderly, imm)

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 12, 2020

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Right about now would be a great time to weigh emergency measures like:
– Extending Medicare/Medicaid coverage to all
– Eviction freezes
– No-strings UBI programs
– Eliminating work requirements for SNAP &other assistance
– Humanitarian provisions in prisons & decarceral policies

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 12, 2020

Some are taking about ⬆️unemployment insurance, & while good it’s not nearly enough. There are enormous sectors of our economy (tipped workers, freelance, shift workers) who may not be “unemployed” but whose lives are still dramatically disrupted to the point of eviction, etc

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 12, 2020

Breitbart:

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said on Thursday that lawmakers should consider a swath of measures, including “no-strings” universal basic income (UBI) programs, as a response to the economic impacts of the Chinese coronavirus.

The freshman lawmaker weighed in on the ongoing debate over an economic relief package designed to combat the ramifications of the coronavirus. She said while proposals, like expanding unemployment insurance, are good, they are not enough and pushed for far more drastic, big-government measures.

House Democrats, under the leadership of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), unveiled their own economic relief package on Wednesday, but Republicans are not on board. While the bill includes basics like free coronavirus testing, Republicans contend that their colleagues added elements that are unnecessary and ineffective while ignoring other solutions, like a payroll tax cut — a proposal House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) called a “non-starter.”

The Democrats’ package includes the expansion of food assistance programs and an emergency paid leave program. More

Congratulations – you made a list of things will have no effect on the spread and treatment of a virus – at all.

— Tom (@BoreGuru) March 12, 2020

So her plan is for nobody to work. And give everybody free money. She is like a child who wants everything in a toy store, but has no understanding of money or what it takes to get it. This woman is more dangerous than any virus known to man. 

Congratulations – you made a list of things will have no effect on the spread and treatment of a virus – at all.

— Tom (@BoreGuru) March 12, 2020