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Joel Brennan: “Those 300 or $600 checks they don't go to people who are…”

Featuring: Joel Brennan, Democratic | Candidate, Governor of Wisconsin

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Published | Video Starts at 33:24

And I said, if you put the really poor people and the people on Social Security over in this third of the auditorium, those would be the people, those, you know, that 30% of the people, they'd get nothing out of this. Those 300 or $600 checks they don't go to people who are living on a fixed income. They don't go to people who are poor, who don't have a tax liability. And by the way, if you put money out like that, that's who spends it. (33:24–33:30)

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Asserts that the checks do not benefit people on fixed incomes.

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