You’re About To Get Another Stimulus Check

Jonathan Garner
2 min readDec 14, 2022
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It’s quite accurate to say that more stimulus checks are coming down. The reason is simple, actually…apart from the fact that the economy is starting to languish; the reason is that many states have already been sending out stimulus checks.

But what about stimulus checks from the federal government? Isn’t that why you clicked on this article? It would be tough to say that such a thing can’t happen. But perhaps one might say that it’s unlikely. I’ve heard it argued that we won’t get more stimulus checks — even in a recession or in an economic downturn (like now) — -because that will cause even more inflation. This is not a good argument against the plausibility of having more stimulus checks, even though it seems to be the #1, most popular argument/objection.

For one thing, politicians don’t always just do what is rational, correct, and reasonable, as if they are robots: this is also a reason why, if anything, we would expect to get another stimulus check. For another thing, a stimulus check in isolation doesn’t cause inflation; however, a stimulus check paid for by the printing of money is what causes inflation, precisely because that just IS inflation. So much for the #1 objection.

Given that we’ve already had stimulus checks on the federal level, and given that we’ve already had many states already pass their own…

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Jonathan Garner
Jonathan Garner

Written by Jonathan Garner

Finance/Investing/Economics/Philosophy/Religion blogger. I’m also a Philosophy of Religion blogger:https://jonathandavidgarner.wordpress.com/

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