Yes, the fed workers may be better off, but what about the unfed workers, and their unfed families?
You might be asking yourself, who the Hell is this Kevin Hassett idiot, anyway? Good question, and the answer is “an AEI stooge, and a bad economist to boot”.
Just one morsel from his biography:
Hassett is coauthor with James K. Glassman of Dow 36,000: The New Strategy for Profiting from the Coming Rise in the Stock Market. It was published in 1999 before the dot-com bubble burst.
In other words, enough of an idiot that he might actually be overqualified for this maladministration.