I like how this is a big deal (and the price of gas)...as if having a THIRTY TRILLION National Debt due to a pandemic (response botched or not, it doesn't matter)...you don't put your thumb that hard on the scale without massive downstream effects.
that's a bit misleading considering that the debt was already 23 trillion before the pandemic.
33% of US debt happened due to pandemic response; was that well spent?
What happens if the future bails on paying off dead peoples debt? Get sued by dead financiers if they legislate that dead peoples contracts are not theirs to honor?
Real resource use is a more important conversation to the species than deals made by great great great grandads a future estate try to grift on.
“Pull yourselves by your boot straps and pay off these notes the dead rich took out against old assets over valued by contemporary standards, future people!” Makes absolutely no sense.