stimulus

This bill is being referred to as a stimulus package or a “bailout”, but I think it’s more helpful to think of it as government spending replacing private consumer spending. When the government is enacting social distancing measures, even enforcing “shelter-in-place” policies in many places, that is going to affect consumer spending immensely. All of a sudden, no one is flying, no one is eating in restaurants, no one is going to the movies, etc. Because the government is telling people not to do these things, does it follow that the negatively affected companies deserve to get some of their lost revenue replaced with government funds?