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Re:Denmark: No aid for companies which pay out dividends or ... by malandrew on Monday April 20, 2020 @01:10PM (#22925900)
> In many European countries, social safety nets exist

They only exist because they are funded by taxing economic activity. If governments could just will them into being without restriction than every country in the world could have European level social safety nets.

If economic activity declines, so does the money faucet funding the social safety nets.

Re:Denmark: No aid for companies which pay out dividends or ... by justsid on Monday April 20, 2020 @01:28PM (#22926117)
Even more reason not to bail out companies that don’t pay taxes then.
Re:Denmark: No aid for companies which pay out dividends or ... by cies on Monday April 20, 2020 @01:45PM (#22926334)
On the long run yes, on the sort run they could do some money printing to fill the hole. (which is what we're seeing now)