DeSantis Wants To Pay Anti-Vaxxers With COVID Funds

CNN reports:

As Florida Republicans, led by Gov. Ron DeSantis, escalate their fight against President Joe Biden’s coronavirus vaccine mandate, they are testing a new method to support resisters: giving taxpayer money to the unvaccinated.

Florida is one of a handful of states that now ensures people who refuse the shot remain eligible for unemployment benefits if they lose their job over their stance. Iowa, Kansas and Tennessee have done the same.

And DeSantis, one of the leading Republican voices against federal vaccine requirements, wants to go even further. He says his state may pay the fines of businesses that snub the federal vaccine mandate — and he’ll do it with coronavirus relief aid signed into law by Biden.

Read the full article.

Florida’s DeSantis wants to hand out taxpayer dollars to businesses that defy vaccine mandates. https://t.co/BsxWCFBAUZ

— Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) December 3, 2021