Political incentives are different t than economic incentives. Unfortunately. Just think about it, the state tells me to close my business and then for my trouble I get a loan and a bunch of hoops to jump through? Utter horse droppings.

Or indexing benefits to last years taxes. So someone laid off in a ny economy with less purchasing power wont gets benefit that a florida worker with more purchasing power will?

Oh and people making less than about 45k/year that got laid off have no incentive to go back to work with the 600/week federal ui supplement. Good luck trying to call workers back in. My wife is a manager. She called one of her employees in about taking a couple hours part time. ""Well, that messes with unemployment!"

Why do we pay these people to come up with this overblown crap. It causes more distortion in the market, perverse incentives, unintended disincentives, sets bad precedent and could be argued violated the 5th amendment taking clause. This is essentially a large imminent domain case. The government commendered parts of the economy so Fauci could play with his charts. That's not subject to progressive ideology about not being seen to help the middle class (100k is still very middle class).

Its crap, its AOC light. Friedman said it. When there is a situation that the feds have to step in and help, then just give people money and let them make their own decisions. Right now we font need chuck Schumers social experiments about limits on executive pay. We need the freedom and liquidity to finally reach escape velocity in the economy. U get this thing humming @ 5 ir 6% and everything will take care of herself.

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