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
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
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