Who has the best fiscal stimulus plan?

From Brad DeLong.  Excerpt:

The best way to keep a stimulus bill from becoming a lobbyist-pleasing ineffective and destructive Christmas tree in which a lot of the money goes to people who won’t spend it and a lot more to people who shouldn’t get it is to keep the legislative vehicle simple and clean. Boosting employment in the short term by cutting a lot of identical checks by April if we need to is something congress and the IRS can do. And Obama’s plan seems to me to have the best chance of doing that–if he can sign Pelosi and Reid up to move a clean, focused bill.

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