It's great that dead people got $1.4 billion in stimulus checks, stop whining
According to a new report from a federal watchdog, the government sent out $1.4 billion in coronavirus stimulus checks to dead people.
People are very mad about this "waste."
These people are very wrong. In fact, it's more worrying that the amount of overpayment was too low.
People are dying, people are unemployed. We should be more worried that the government isn't doing enough, not that the government accidentally overpaid slightly in a rush to save the economy.
This is an opinion column.
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