We have this already. It's called unemployment. We don't need stimulus for people with existing paychecks.
We need conditions and durations on unemployment temporarily lifted, some for of access for self-employed or under-the-table workers, and some form of block grants for companies that would otherwise face bankruptcies (which would cascade) and and obviously enormous increases in funding that would be required by this.
edit: why am I downvoted? The problem is not giving extra money to those with jobs, the problem is giving money to those without jobs.
Yes, and this begs the question of what will happen with state budgets, many of which have balanced budget amendments and have no legal flexibility to deal with this. The answer is federal block grants to backstop national unemployment changes. Removing waiting periods and extending benefits indefinitely is essentially temporary UBI, which is what we need.
So yes, this form of changes to unemployment would _require_ a federal response. And we require far more federal response than that, far far more. But payroll tax holidays and $1000/adult responses are not serious policy and waste invaluable time.
We need conditions and durations on unemployment temporarily lifted, some for of access for self-employed or under-the-table workers, and some form of block grants for companies that would otherwise face bankruptcies (which would cascade) and and obviously enormous increases in funding that would be required by this.
edit: why am I downvoted? The problem is not giving extra money to those with jobs, the problem is giving money to those without jobs.