Our rebounding economy doesn't need more stimulus checks
By Liz Peek, Opinion Contributor — 01/29/21 11:30 AM EST It’s apparently impolite to ask, but can someone please explain why Democrats are so keen to send out $1,400 to able-bodied Americans who are still employed? That’s what’s in President Biden’s $1.9 trillion “relief†package, but, really, it’s time GOP legislators asked: relief from what?
For sure, COVID-19 has pummeled our country and our economy. There’s plenty of misery, ten million people are out of work and tens of thousands of small businesses are on the brink of failure.
But surely those are the people whom we should be helping, not those who still have jobs and whose incomes have not been impacted by the pandemic. After all, we could just as easily have sent those folks checks two years ago or we could send them $5,000 today instead of $1,400. There’s no rhyme or reason for the handouts, no logic to the amounts and the timing, except perhaps that Democrats think the payments will help them keep control of Congress in 2022.
That’s not good enough.
Astonishingly, in all the discussion about the relief bill, we’ve heard precious little about the actual state of the economy. Mostly what we hear is alarming forecasts, and especially from Democrats.
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