April 18th Poll: CARES Money Starts To Get To Business Owners In Need

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Lee Yasgur

Yasgur Eye Associates
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Answered on April 19th, 2020

Lets talk about the Payroll Protection Program grant/ loans?  Small businesses with lower payrolls represent a low yield of payoff for the banks handling these grants.  The bank gets a fee that is  a percentage of the loans managed, so the firms with highest payrolls allowed to apply produce the largest fees.  That's is likely to be why so few business owners of the really small variety have seen SBA/PPP grants approved.  

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As disgusting as that sounds, I firmly believe you just nailed one of the problems that I haven’t heard anyone else mention.
Apr 19th, 2020
A friend wrote this similar analysis for Medium: https://medium.com/daringdepravity/what-happene...
Apr 19th, 2020
I believe that too. Why waste so much time and energy on small businesses. Easier to dole out a lot of money to a few that a little money to many.
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