By Juan Montoya
The federal government has done it.
It has moved filing your income tax for months from April until July.
It has also stopped federal home loans foreclosures through Fannie Mae and other obligations and halted evictions of borrowers because of the coronavirus crisis.
At the state level, Gov. Greg Abbott has followed similar steps. Abbott announced March 18 that he had directed the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) to temporarily waive expiration dates for driver's licenses, commercial driver's licenses and other identification forms.
Among other suspensions of fees and rules, Abbott suspended penalties for failure to timely title or register a vehicle, or renew a parking placard.
Now is the time for the Brownsville Public Utilities Board to suspend or halve utility payments, suspend disconnections of water and electricity, or stop charging residential utility charges altogether.
This not out of the goodness of their heart. As a result of the Tenaska debacle, PUB has piled up more than $100 million accrued due to the utility increases that have been in place since mid-2012.
About the only beneficiaries have been the top three PUB executives who generously gave themselves each a $100,000 raise over three years after the increases went into effect.
It would be height of despotism and cynicism if people's water and electricity would be cut off after they have been laid off from their jobs at restaurants, bars, stores and small manufacturing affected by the crash of the local economy resulting from the COVID-19 crisis.
This would be the only Christian and American thing to do as local residents' income plummets as a result of the COVID-19 virus. Can you really deprive a family of a worker who has been laid off while the PUB executives live in the lap of luxury thanks to their fat salaries and raises?
Are they up to it? And if they are not, will the City of Brownsville Commission step in and nudge them in the right direction?
LOOKS LIKE THEY DID!
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It should be noted that the Federal and State administrations are Republican and the do nothing locals are Democrat. Remember that when you go to vote.
Will the payments be dismissed or do still have to come back and pay the months that were suspended? If we have to pay the months suspended than its not helpful. Take those payments out of the tenaka shit and us that for payments.
The House bill would require corporations receiving any federal assistance to restrict executive pay, ban so-called golden parachute payments for departing executives, halt stock buybacks and dividend payments, pay a $15 minimum wage, and maintain their workforce and any labor union agreements.
Under the House bill, all individuals with a Social Security number, including retirees and the unemployed, would receive $1,500, compared with $1,200 for taxpayers in the Senate bill.
Why is it that some people expect freebies?! The majority of ppl will benefit from the stimulus package and receive a check in the mail. These monies are not a bonus, it’s to help pay your bills that you will or have incurred while not having an earned income. It’s unfortunate that some people will misappropriate the funds and still expect freebies.
To bad the cantinas are closed...
Andas mamado, Juanito? Where does it say bills would be suspended? Disconnections, vato! Disconnections would be suspended.
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we have a lot of those around here specially teachers that can't teach in a classroom come here to teach hahahahaha lol
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