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Originally Posted by nfotiu
Unemployment covers all those cases. Funding should mostly be directed to further enhancing, extending and making it easier to get.
Give money back through tax returns this year to people who had a drop in income from 2019. Taxes will start to be done in the next few weeks.
At very least, make the income threshold a lot lower for who gets those checks and double the amount sent out. Lower income people were on average much more affected, so at least that would better target people affected, and not be sent to so many office workers working from home.
You keep saying means tested like it's an ugly word. I'm suggesting targeting to the people impacted. Blind Stimulus isn't needed this time around, we should helping the people who've been hurt financially by COVID.
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Sending out checks to everyone is a much fairer and easier process.
At the very least, doing so amounts to a tax break, or rebate, or reduction.
And providing more money to everyone—from those who pay six-plus figure amounts in federal income taxes to those who pay absolutely nothing—gets money into the economy and creates or maintains jobs for everyone.
If you want money in the hands of people now, then cut the roadblocks to doing so, which include any sort of means testing or targeting.