This article is internally contradictory. First, the article claims consumption will go up:<p><i>No longer will poor Americans have to choose between heating oil and food, between medicine and shoes for their children.</i><p>Then it claims investment will go up:<p><i>Also, demand increases — giving firms reason to expand production and hire new workers.</i><p>Firms may have <i>reason</i> to expand production, but the resources needed to expand production are instead being consumed. Rather than building a factory, workers are making shoes for poor children.<p>(At least the ones who didn&#x27;t tell their boss to &quot;take this job and shove it&quot; - a direct quote from the article. That&#x27;s just a deadweight loss the article ignores for no apparent reason.)<p>I really wish someone would write an article about BI that was more than just clueless pop Keynesianism - &quot;Demand Good, Investment Bad, Free Lunch for All.&quot;