Biden is now calling on state and local governments to actually bribe people to get the vaccine, suggesting a $100 payment for every new person that gets vaccinated:
Treasury Dept: Today, the President is calling on state, territorial, and local governments to provide $100 payments for every newly vaccinated American, as an extra incentive to boost vaccination rates, protect communities, and save lives.
— Bo Erickson CBS (@BoKnowsNews) July 29, 2021
New: @USTreasury: “Today, the President is calling on state, territorial, and local governments to provide $100 payments for every newly vaccinated American, as an extra incentive to boost vaccination rates, protect communities, and save lives” pic.twitter.com/oCSHGkLGEW
— davidshepardson (@davidshepardson) July 29, 2021
Maybe it’s just me, but if Biden wants to make unvaccinated people less suspicious of the vaccine, the government offering to bribe people to get vaxxed is not the way to do it. If anything, that will likely have the opposite effect.
But I guess this isn’t surprising coming from a socialist who only cares about his legacy. If he truly cared about stopping the virus, he’d do what Trump did to get it shut down again.