The $1200 is for qualifying individuals.
A qualifying married couple gets $2400..
$500 more would go to parents with dependent children...per child.
If you are on Social Security or Disability you will receive $1200 as well.
If you owe the IRS they will not deduct it from you.
They are using tax returns because many people get tax refunds in the form of direct deposit.
SS and Disability is also direct deposit.
No, illegals don't get the $1200.
There is also a salary cap ...I think $75K for individual and $150K for couples.
If you are near the limit you will get a partial check..
The USA has many programs that help the needy.
If you want to claim it next year you can since it is 2020 and maybe at the end of the year you will be under the cap.
Yes, it is a social program that helps people in trouble. No different than existing safety net programs.
In this case, the entire country is under attack by the communist party of china and their keeping the wuhan mess secret and exporting the virus around the globe. It is a safety net for all who qualify.
One way to find the money is to stop giving it out to countries who hate our guts ....you know, the countries a lot of you are from.
Another way is to stop paying for 75% of NATO and the U.N.
Getting our troops the fuck out of other countries LIKE Trump campaigned on in 2015 is another way.
Using the tariffs on chinese goods is another way.
I would prefer the government give citizens the money since they are asking the citizens not to work.
The 15 day stay home policy was extended another month to the end of April.
Private corporations are pitching in and there will be a great deal learned from this scourge.
Many breakthroughs in testing have occurred and hopefully medications will test out and a vaccine will be ready for next year.
I know that the average citizen would prefer they and their neighbors get $1200 each than for the USA to spend it outside the country.
I would suggest all of the illegals...30 million+ go turn themselves into ICE and be like the expats are doing every day in Cambodia...ask to be repatriated to their homelands.

Don't rain on my parade, I could use that "free money" and I'll be happy to receive it.

pczz wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 11:47 am If its so great why do so mnay Americnas choose to live elsewhere?

not "so many," only a small percentage do.

phuketrichard wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 7:40 pm who cares?
$1,200 is fuck all

then you wouldn't mind sending me $1200 then, right?

phuketrichard wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 7:40 pm who cares?
$1,200 is fuck all

Suggestion: Every US citizen who thinks that $1200 is fk all, should be free to donate that fk all money to other Americans or illegal immigrants working in the US, who might have no job and no health care, and might not be able to afford to retire to a third world country where life is cheap.