Cash for Vax! No vax, no financial relief. That’s called a bribe. Lots of left leaning/democrats and deep-state status quo (
ya know the Biden/Harris crew) supporting this crap..... lucky for them the election was rigged in their favor!
Andrew Yang is among the unlikely arrangement of figures backing the idea, which includes some top Democratic and Republican economists.
www.businessinsider.com
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recent poll from Gallup showed that around 42% of Americans say they wouldn't get a shot right away, only a small drop from October.
Other polls in the last few months suggested
distrust of a vaccineregardless of political ideology.
That skepticism tends to run deeper among Black and Hispanic Americans, surveys show.
Robert Litan, a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who served in the Bill Clinton administration,
designed a plan to encourage more people to take it: Pay $1,000 for a shot. It's an amount comparable to the millions of stimulus checks sent to Americans earlier this year under a federal rescue package.
The novel proposal comes as the US confronts
a daunting set of challenges in the coming months.
Public health officials are scrambling to set up the infrastructure to deliver a vaccine to essential workers and other vulnerable populations — and experts are weighing ways to boost uptake in a polarizing political environment.
The payments are drawing support from an unlikely arrangement of figures. N. Gregory Mankiw, a former top economic advisor to President George W. Bush,
backs it. Then John Delaney, a former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, said he favored it as well. He
pitched paying people a larger sum of $1,500.
Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang also expressed support for the plan after Business Insider initially published this story on Sunday. "I'm on board
@John Delaney," Yang
tweeted.
Litan argues that a financial incentive to encourage shots would help the US reach herd immunity faster, saving lives. He said it could also serve as a critical boost for many households strapped for cash because Congress has not passed another coronavirus relief package since the spring.
"Unlike previous payments, this is stimulus tied to socially responsible behavior. So society is getting a benefit from handing out the money," he told Business Insider.
Litan's
plan includes a $200 upfront payment for individuals, with the last $800 distributed when a 70% vaccination rate threshold is crossed at the state level. Such a program would cost $265 billion, per his estimate.
He said it was a small price to pay compared to the ruinous cost of the pandemic on lives and businesses, which one
recent economic study in the Journal of the American Medical Association estimated at $16 trillion.
"If we somehow don't get to true immunity, our economy will be operating with a huge weight on its chest," Litan said. "We won't get back to normal."
