But they don't have the funds to do that. That's the problem. Some people (not you) assume that the gov't has endless coffers and can pay for epidemy combat and control, government-provided services, and still have tons to give it to the people in need. That's just not the case. Already gov'ts have taken a big hit to their main income (taxes), so where are they gonna come up with payments for everyone?
Those of us self-employed are headed for the skid row: many of us simply do not qualify for their aid programs. Those of us who are unhappily unmarried will also receive less aid even if we do happen to miraculously qualify. What's a $1,350 one-time payment do for you when your monthly rent is $1,100? What about utilities? Business licence? Petrol? Food?
Even those who have arrantly and inveterately supported big-government are already seeing the oncoming fallout:
“The feeling is that a not indifferent political and social ‘experiment’ is being conducted in Italy, at least as a trend of the moment,” writes De Angelis, a self-described “leftist,” where democracy is exercised “as a regime of a leader called to manage the emergency, in a climate in which those who criticize the government are deemed traitors of the homeland in the face of the growing number of the dead, while propaganda by Big Brother is legitimate.”
Only when the crisis has passed will it be possible to evaluate the adequacy of the measures taken and the unprecedented “limitation of fundamental freedoms,” De Angelis laments.
