Originally Posted by
Profane Kahuna
You can try to throw judgemental shade all you want, but when some people are working and paying taxes so that others can collect MORE MONEY FOR NOT WORKING, then I’m pretty sure we have a problem.
I pay enough taxes to throw shade. I have also been poor and my path to get here involved scrubbing a lot of toilets for minimum wage or less.
You are oversimplifying the issue, or maybe politicizing it. Either way, you're wrong. The economics of it are simple. If you undershoot the stimulus, you have tons of second and third order effects like evictions or unpaid rents that lead to foreclosures, repossessions that lead to job losses and homelessness, etc. Those take years to sort out. We largely avoided that due to carpet bombing stimulus money as soon as this started. It will dry up soon and folks will be happy to return to work. Don't fret.