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> Putting more money into system doesn't add any additional goods.

I don't think goods are in short supply.

> you get the product(s) first leaving others to go without

Luckily the person able to solve that problem—the producer of those goods—just got a whole bunch of money by selling the goods they had produced so far.

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I'll concede I may have conflated the idea of money printing with reallocating existing funds. It's not clear where this money is going to come from. But I get suspicious whenever the govt just wants to hand out money. There are so many other programs handing out money. Why is this one going to be better?

I dunno. But people really like their credit card bonuses, even those things come from credit card interchange fees, which in turn come from raising the prices on goods.

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