By Kyle Smith
If a few billion dollars get carted off by bandits, or chewed into confetti by squirrels, or blown into the nearest river, after a brief chastened look, the Democrats always come back with: âHey, we think we have a new solution: Spend more money again!â Their latest idea is to upchuck $1.9 trillion (not $2âtrillion â theyâre not crazy or anything) on yet another COVID relief package.
Theyâve already appropriated some $6 trillion in fighting COVID, though. Thatâs more than we spent fighting WWII, which cost about $4.1 trillion in inflation-adjusted dollars. Unlike in the â40s, though, weâve pretty clearly lost World War C. COVID has killed way more people than Hitler and Hirohito did, and unlike the Third Reich, itâs never going to go away. So while weâre getting used to the Forever Virus, we might as well pause for a sec and wonder: What the heck did all that spending buy us?
So far, $100 billion of it has been straight-up stolen, âresulting in the arrest of more than 100 suspects who span the spectrum from individuals to organized groups,â according to a CNBC report. Donât worry, though, the feds are on the case, and so far theyâve recovered .â.â. $2.3 billion.