How about we get the tax money we paid in while we worked through the pandemic, like the ones who collected unemployment? 

We wear masks eight hours a day, putting our lives and our family’s in danger while the ones on unemployment sit on their couch in their PJs watching TV, not costing them a thing for gas to get from the kitchen to the living room, but they got the money back they took out for taxes.

Mauriel Wood

Perkinsville

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