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Everyone in the short term benefits. In the long term, we have to address the debt or it will cause far more problems.

I'm not too worried about inflation in the short term but if we get this perfect recovery then hyper inflation could be a real thing and we will have to turn around and chose whether to roll with hyper inflation and cause even farther separation of classes or chose a really long down period in the economy. The good news is hyper inflation would let up pay off the debt fairly easily. The bad news is we are just as likely to see this recovery go sideways really quickly and enter deflationary period that the FED will spray even more money across the economy.

So yeah, free money is never free. The question just becomes which generation pays for it?

See my previous post about the net worth of just the 400 richest Americans. If we seized (and I'm not saying we should) 1.9 TRILLION dollars from those 400, they would still have enough to have 4 billion dollars each and we could, for example, fund the SNAP program for 30 years. My point is that we don't have to pass this debt on, we could choose to get the people who are hoarding wealth to pay their share.