Money for Nothing: House’s Relief Package Is Unnecessary

People walk on the boardwalk as the area re-opens from the coronavirus pandemic, in Ocean City, Maryland, on May 10, 2020. Eric Thayer/Getty Images

Commentary

The crisis caused by the forced shutdown of the economy has given us some important lessons: No. 1, shutting down the economy entirely is a dangerous experiment with important long-term implications, and No. 2, there’s no such thing as “lives or the economy.”