Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Rips GOP Lawmaker's Anti-Stimulus Stance In Fiery Tweet

[Beartracks]

4. "because of how people would spend the money" -- How did Republicans...

... convince themselves that "how" the money is spent, or what it's spent on, makes a shit's bit of difference?

If someone REALLY spends their relief money or their EBT dollars or whatever on crab legs and beer, so what? The economy needs the money to be moving -- not locked up in an offshore account -- and if next month that family realizes they should've spread the money farther by buying oatmeal and milk, that's what they will do. Any value that might be gained from micro-managing and over-administering these sorts of programs is not justified by the overwhelming economic value realized by shifting that overhead into the pockets of the recipients instead.

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