In light of recent Internet memes, let's be perfectly clear about a few things here. 1) President Trump's proposal to send checks to citizens impacted by COVID-19 is not, I repeat, is not the same thing proposed by Andrew Yang during his failed attempted to nab the Democratic nomination. It is intellectually dishonest to conflate the two. Trump, along with numerous other legislators, is recommending a bailout of the American people as a temporary response to a crisis. Yang was suggesting that we should permanently provide $1000/month to an entire class of poverty-stricken Americans. The concepts are entirely different, as would be the fiscal ramifications. Moreover, Trump's stimulus package is an attempt to correct problems caused not only by the current pandemic, but by the restrictions put in place as a response to that pandemic. It's an attempt to counteract the financial hardship caused by government actions--a "sorry, here's some money" sort o...