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throwlaplace on April 9, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Fed to buy junk bonds, lend to states in fresh vir...

these kinds of solutions always assume there isn't enough slack in the system to give more than the minimum when it's clearly not the case because all of the fed models have slippage factored in. but no when it's welfare absolutely every penny has to be accounted for.

>some extra conditional $600 checks

conditional on what? literacy? drug tests? skin color? why conditional at all?

malandrew on April 9, 2020 [–]

> conditional on what?

I don't remember. I think it might have been for dependents. Go read the text of the first bailout bill. It's all there.

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