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 Originally Posted by wufwugy
It's possible the best of all the bad options right now (economically) is that the government should send weekly checks to every person employed at a business that the government forced closed.
This is basically our strategy. Govt has pledged to cover 80% of wages up to £2500 (approx $3000) to stop businesses laying off their staff. Assuming an average of £2000 each for 30 million people over three months, that's £180b. A financial package to support the self employed is yet to be announced. If we can keep the economic cost under a trillion, we're doing well. That's around half our GDP.
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