This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Thursday, April 16th, 2020.

I'm Caleb Brown. As the novel coronavirus spread across the planet,

governments were willing to toss out a lot of policy ideas, some adopted, others

discarded.

Cato's Diego Zilawaga details a few of the ideas that, though not adopted this time

around, will be back and should be avoided like well like the

plague. In any kind of emergency or any time a demand for

there are always ideas that people wanted to put in there have always

ideas that people wanted to put in there

have always wanted anyway

and they figure well this, this vehicle is moving.

This legislation is moving and I should get whatever it is that I want into that piece of legislation

as well. There was, this was a bit of a Christmas tree in the sense

that it did have a lot of things that don't really

seem to make a lot of sense with regard to spending.

But a lot of things didn't make it in there.

And you, as we started talking just before we started recording,

you said that doesn't mean those things are going to go away,

they'll be back.

So what were some of the bad ideas that you saw discussed widely in this relief slash stimulus

measure that you expect to come back.

When the emergency stimulus bill was being discussed, there were two versions that were circulating at any point in time. One was the Senate version

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