Giving people extra money so they could afford toilet paper would not have helped. The problem wasn’t that people couldn’t afford toilet paper, but that there wasn’t any available, and it was the panic buying and speculation that resulted in it not being available.
And the problem also wasn’t that the manufacturers had no incentive to make more toilet paper, so giving people more money to buy toilet paper wouldn’t have helped there either.
When I said the government should use tax money to finance disaster recovery, I didn’t mean it should give that money to individual people to buy disaster supplies.
Giving people extra money so they could afford toilet paper would not have helped. The problem wasn’t that people couldn’t afford toilet paper, but that there wasn’t any available, and it was the panic buying and speculation that resulted in it not being available.
And the problem also wasn’t that the manufacturers had no incentive to make more toilet paper, so giving people more money to buy toilet paper wouldn’t have helped there either.
When I said the government should use tax money to finance disaster recovery, I didn’t mean it should give that money to individual people to buy disaster supplies.