The most patriotic thing you can do right now is spend it at a small business.
The stimulus is meant to keep the money circulating. (velocity of money).
If people panic and hoard money right now (like tp), then small business and 10’s of millions of jobs will die.
Money spent by government has a multiplier factor of 2. Money spent by the private sector has a multiplier of 5.
Money going directly to the people will help the economy more/cause less harm to the economy. In the end, with the privatize sector multiplier of 5, there will be taxes on that money coming ba k to the government.
“The most patriotic thing you can do right now is spend it at a small business.”
indeed ... though unfortunately most people are going to be forced to use theres to make debt payments ...
Excellent post !