(04-07-2020, 01:21 PM)TJBender Wrote:

(04-07-2020, 10:53 AM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote: I believe 100% of the first stimulus should have been filtered through business. This would have done a few things.

1. Allowed employers to maintain payroll
2. Prevented 10 million people from filing unemployment
3. Not put stimulus money in the hands of people who were already unemployed and already attached to the government nipple.

Keep in mind, the people who make these decisions are the same people the left wants to hand over control of our health care industry to.

Businesses will look out for themselves first. Will that money trickle down? Sure, but if you leave it to businesses to trickle down, it'll go the long way, and by the time the nighttime assistant janitor sees their check, there's not going to be much of a stimulus left. It had to go directly to individuals to keep greasy corporate palms from being in charge of how much is paid out, and if you think that would have stopped people who'd been laid off from filing for UI, think again. I don't really think any company with more than 50 employees should have received straight handout cash, but maybe that's just me. My bigger concern is that if a second $1T+ stimulus goes through, followed potentially by a third, the country is set up for inflation at a disastrous level as whoever's running the show in 2022 has to deal with the fallout of a country inventing money out of thin air on an absurd scale. The American peso might be less of a joke and more of a problem down the line. That's applicable whether it's businesses, individuals or both getting that money. This is going to shoot our economy in the foot for 10-20 years, and the only saving grace is that it's done the same for just about every developed nation in the world.