This article was written by Madison Powers a CQ columnist. In her article she talks about the reason why its taking a long time for the stimulus package to pass is because it has multiple trade-offs that haved to be considered. Her audience of course is the american people and anybody who wants to know about the stimulus package. There are two big trade-offs the author talks about in this article. One, equity-efficiency and two, the need to strike a balance in the infrastructure.
Equity and efficiency, we want the stimulus package to increase the activity in the economy. We basiclly want our moneys worth. She states that economists think that the ability to ensure a stable recovery is dependent for the economy to last longer. Other people think that this is something we cant afford but we are already in such a huge debt it would make sense to have something to help decrease it right. Also people are worried that it wont be the right balance in the infrastructure to help support the economy.
