^^^ Plus the whole idea of
STIMULUS checks is to give the
consumer-based economy a shot in the arm. People who now have no job and half (if any) unemployment comp will
SPEND the money thus boosting the economy, even if they'd rather pay down debt
I don't know where GOP Congresscritters acquire the food they must eat from time to time, but the rest of us have to shell out money for it. So we support restaurants and supermarkets and convenience stores and the fossil fuel industry just getting to and from home to spend that money. Plus if we pay down debt we're helping the bottom line of banks (which both parties' pols do love) since they can lend it out again at a fat rate.
So are these suddenly prudent GOP conservators of our Treasury suggesting it's a sin if a recipient of a stimulus check does something with the money other than buying food or doing a debt paydown?
Let's have a look at how that went the first time around.
So the banks made out great because poor and working class people bought groceries and paid off debt with anything left... and rich people stuck their whole stimulus payment in the bank.
Sounds to me like 2nd round should hand out much more to the broke and less to the human squirrels who already have a mink coat and just bank a stimulus check the same way real squirrels bank acorns they find during a mild winter.