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To: i-node who wrote (695119)	1/25/2013 9:36:27 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578144

That money would have been circulating in the economy anyway, as Bastiat so aptly described. You're taking money out of the hands of productive people and giving it to non-productive people. Not necessarily. Governments have other resources than taxation. They can borrow it or print it, for example. Both have negative consequences, but the idea is to cover those consequences when the economy improves. Here, see what Mark Zandi of Moody's Economy.com Has to say. Mark Zandi on UI He doesn't agree with you.