Actually, I don’t want the money. I don’t mind the federal government mitigating their own damage though.
In this case, the government has forced shutdowns of businesses. That is a “taking”, and we should compensate businesses for that. If we had a way of doing it, i would give money to any business that had to send workers home due to coronavirus, if that money was used to pay those workers for their average weekly salary as if they were working.
This would mitigate some of the impact of the virus. Business could then be taken care of with tax credits, to some degree.
The money would help someone like my daughter who works at a day care center. She went from 35 hours a week to 15 hours a week. I can only imagine how many working people are suffering the same hardship as she is. Hopefully it won’t last too long and she can get back to working her normal hours.