Targeting businesses…which are more often owned by richer people than poorer people. I know lots of business owners that made out very well from PPP (myself included).
The whole thing was an exercise in ensuring the social ordering remained in place. Otherwise, the government easily could have given people more cash, rather than go via their bosses.
https://www.investopedia.com/where-ppp-money-went-5216725
> Almost all PPP loans are expected to be forgiven with 94% of eligible small businesses in the U.S. receiving one or more loans under the program. Roughly 25% of PPP loan funds went directly to workers who would have lost their jobs. The rest (75%) went to business owners, shareholders, creditors, and suppliers of companies receiving loans.
> Most of the negative outcome is blamed on the untargeted nature of the program due to the lack of administrative capacity in the U.S. to administer a program of this type.
>Ultimately some percentage of PPP loan funds that went to businesses reinforced the company's bottom line in the form of windfall profit.