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"The 'stimulus' for the economy, routed around the entire actual economy, never reaching individuals or true small business."

How can this be true if innumerable number of individuals received $1200 checks and many small businesses also received varying amounts in the four and five digits?

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There are still millions of eligible people who cannot use the get my payment tool to get their status on the stimulus payment. Companies like Ruths Chris Steakhouse who spent millions in stock buybacks and have millions in reserve are receiving millions when they don’t need it. Shake Shack got 10 mill. and even though they returned it due to public backlash, now it can’t be loaned out again until the next PPP-like loan funding is approved. PPP is depleted giving out to large, publicly traded companies...not small businesses.

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