Those cringe motherfuckers couldn't be bothered with a check I could read and cash, oh no. They're sending out debit cards. Looks like we're all on welfare now folks. Waitin' for de gubment to charge up my spending card so I can go to Walmart.
And their favorite folks the bankers, get a transaction cut on everything.
It's $3 for every EBT card, per person. I can only imagine the money the whores in congress are giving them over this.
Welfare is big business.
In Germany we have the equivalent of the military industrial complex for migrants, colloquially called the asylum industry. It's a whole industry of leeches and middlemen, from lawyers, to housing companies, to NGOs, to "charitable" organizations, to corrupt politicians who have their fingers in all of them.
Here in Seattle we call it the homeless industrial complex.
In 2017, there were 143 million taxpayers in the US.
If just 10% of them got their bribe money on a card, banks made about $43 million
If 25% got it on a card, $107 million
If 50%, $215 million
And that's just on this one round of stimulus.