[Morgawr]

Surely there is a huge difference in getting a one-time amount of "extra" money (which most people would see as a "present") and knowing you'll keep receiving the same amount of money regularly every month for a few years. Furthermore, I clearly remember when we got the covid assistance money a lot of it was to incentivise local spending to support local businesses (at least it was here in Japan, I admit I'm not American so the message maybe was different over there).

[nyjah]

In some states in America it was a lot more than a 1 time payment. People got overpaid on unemployment and unemployment extended even to people that didn’t ever have a job to begin with. People were overpaid ten of thousands of dollars too. And on top of that businesses got PPP loans and that was even more money, hundreds of thousands if not millions. Everyone around me raised their truck or bought a camper. It definitely created a lot of government entitlement. I want to be clear I’m not judging this as good or bad but the one time “extra” money was nothing compared to the other payouts people were able to figure out

Just 1 link of many stories if you google it.. https://www.clickondetroit.com/consumer/help-me-hank/2022/07...