“...pushing for increased unemployment benefits as a way of targeting the workers most vulnerable after widespread business closures and layoffs in response to COVID-19”
Need to target it for those who become unemployed and need it. Dropping money indiscriminately from helicopters on people who are in no position to spend it right now is a waste.
Guess where the most money will be spent go ahead guess.
Answer:WASHINGTON
Means testing should be required.
1 or 2K whatever it ends up being will cause hyper inflation. This is not the fix. Maybe if they do not have interest on it?
We do not want to turn this into hyperinflation.
Moreover, who should get it? For instance, are they going to give it to illegals? What about millionaires and Billionaires?
In my opinion it should only go to anyone that filed taxes with the IRS in 2018.