On: America’s Covid job-saving programme gave most of ...

[WalterBright]

In general, a government spending program to create jobs costs 3x as much as the jobs pay.

[Broken_Hippo → WalterBright]

And to think that they could have just given the money to people instead.

[pempem → Broken_Hippo]

But then they would never work again! Look at where rent moratorium and $6,000 got us!

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Sorry, hearing this ^ bs logic every day in outlets from WSJ to NPR is beyond frustrating. We have helped our citizens so little during a pandemic it has shaken my already cynical core.