03-27-2020, 09:55 PM
(03-27-2020, 09:42 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Actually, it will. As I have more money to spend on a regular basis, I'm less confined by my payments to spend some of that money in other places.
What you're talking about, though, is a longer term incremental increase in economic activity.
Think about the economy as a body and your spending is an IV line. What you're describing opens up the line just the tiniest bit, increasing the flow slightly so that over time there is more saline going through. However, the intention of a stimulus like this is to have people open that line up wide open and shove some 1:10,000 epinephrine in that bad boy. They are looking to jolt the economy at the moment, not looking for long term gains.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
