Stimulus Package Is a Step in the Right Direction (Rep. Tubbs Jones)

Overall, this stimulus package is a step in the right direction. The provisions include temporary assistance to small businesses through enhanced expensing and most importantly the tax cuts for working families that will hopefully give them some relief during this time of rising costs of everything from gas to milk and eggs.

Still, I am disappointed that there are no provisions extending benefits to the unemployed. They are the ones who have been hit the hardest by the drastic downturn in the economy, and by ignoring this problem now we risk it bubbling back to the surface sooner rather than later. Neither have we taken steps to rebuild our country’s infrastructure. In our haste to fix the economy, we must be careful not to put a band-aid over what has become a hemorrhaging wound.