Pay everyone $1500 to get vaccineIt is a stimulus check & big vaccine incentive rolled into one Result: more people get vaccine, it saves lives, helps people financially, and the $400 B pays for itself w/ economic boost from ending pandemic RT if you agree #vaccinestimulus— John Delaney (@JohnDelaney) November 20, 2020
It is exactly the kind of lib shit I think is dumb but honestly you can probably bribe 30-50% of chuds to get it with $1500. If they gave out the vaccine for free tomorrow half of the population wouldn't get it on purpose as well as another chunk that will be too busy working 3 gig jobs to get it. 100% of the three job folks would get it immediately for $1500 and you'd have lots of maga folks parking down the street and walking to the clinic in a mask and sunglasses so nobody thinks they're a libtard.
If this happens, buy up all the liquid band-aid at your local stores and resell it on Craigslist. Chuds won't be able to walk around with a bandage right where all the vaxxers have one
Normally requiring some action in order to receive cash transfers from the government just serves to reduce the number of people receiving aid, and liberals love to use "incentives" to get people to do stuff. This is just one of the few instances I'd support it.
Ah that makes sense. I was thinking of this primarily as a way to get people vaccinated. It'd certainly be better if we paid people to stay home, and then gave them this extra incentive to get vaccinated on top of that.
I’d assume he means that it’d normally be stupid to make the stimulus conditional rather than universal, but given that we live in a country where so many people’s minds have been poisoned by capitalism and hyper-individualism, bribing them is pretty much the only way you could get enough people to get the vaccine
The problem is that vaccine rollout will be anything but uniformly distributed even in the best case. Completely tying it to vaccination will most likely ensure that the people who could use the money the most will have a harder time actually getting it. Having it as a smaller bonus stimulus on top of a noncontingent rollout of checks is a better plan imo. Also weakens the case that antivax psychos will try to make, since it's less obviously coercive if it's "just a bonus".
That's... not a bad idea?
It is exactly the kind of lib shit I think is dumb but honestly you can probably bribe 30-50% of chuds to get it with $1500. If they gave out the vaccine for free tomorrow half of the population wouldn't get it on purpose as well as another chunk that will be too busy working 3 gig jobs to get it. 100% of the three job folks would get it immediately for $1500 and you'd have lots of maga folks parking down the street and walking to the clinic in a mask and sunglasses so nobody thinks they're a libtard.
These are all good points.
If this happens, buy up all the liquid band-aid at your local stores and resell it on Craigslist. Chuds won't be able to walk around with a bandage right where all the vaxxers have one
I have a hard time seeing how it's dumb if it produces the results you describe, and it probably would.
Normally requiring some action in order to receive cash transfers from the government just serves to reduce the number of people receiving aid, and liberals love to use "incentives" to get people to do stuff. This is just one of the few instances I'd support it.
Ah that makes sense. I was thinking of this primarily as a way to get people vaccinated. It'd certainly be better if we paid people to stay home, and then gave them this extra incentive to get vaccinated on top of that.
I’d assume he means that it’d normally be stupid to make the stimulus conditional rather than universal, but given that we live in a country where so many people’s minds have been poisoned by capitalism and hyper-individualism, bribing them is pretty much the only way you could get enough people to get the vaccine
The problem is that vaccine rollout will be anything but uniformly distributed even in the best case. Completely tying it to vaccination will most likely ensure that the people who could use the money the most will have a harder time actually getting it. Having it as a smaller bonus stimulus on top of a noncontingent rollout of checks is a better plan imo. Also weakens the case that antivax psychos will try to make, since it's less obviously coercive if it's "just a bonus".