If Yertle wants to get a stimulus package passed he might want to try not loading it up with corporate bailouts but actually sending the money to small businesses and individuals who were thrown out of work. Just this once. It won’t kill him.
It’s only certain businesses, in the first place. The hardest hit businesses in the 2nd place, and without those businesses a lot of people are out of work. So there is a reason for the businesses to be included. Really what they are, are loans. If they use it to keep operations continuing then the loans do not have to be repaid, if they use the loans for any other purpose then they are treated as low interest loans. At least that is my understanding of how the business aspect would work.
He ain’t the bad guy in this - but some on “our side” just can’t resist even when the other side is being its absolute worst.