[2006alum]

That's basically saying that you want the economic hit to be even worse than the great depression! You have to bail out states and municipalities, their revenues are collapsing through no fault of theirs and will remain collapsed for a while, forcing them to lay off massive amounts of people will just make everything worse. Not to mention that they need to be expanding capabilities so we can do the test and trace that every recovery plan I've ever seen calls for!

Private sector companies' revenues are collapsing through no fault of their own, and will remain collapsed for a while.
Private sector employees are getting laid off.

I'm not sure why public employees should be insulated from the pain being felt out there.  At the same time, they should not be disproportionately whacked, either.  Is there a basis for believing the latter is occurring?

Do you think anyone is suggesting the federal government should cover 100% of the state and local revenue shortfalls? Of course not! But since the federal government has now allocated well over $1 trillion to private sector companies, I guess the better question is why you think the public sector deserves nothing while banks, airlines, and all sorts of private employers deserve bailouts.

[2006alum]

That's basically saying that you want the economic hit to be even worse than the great depression! You have to bail out states and municipalities, their revenues are collapsing through no fault of theirs and will remain collapsed for a while, forcing them to lay off massive amounts of people will just make everything worse. Not to mention that they need to be expanding capabilities so we can do the test and trace that every recovery plan I've ever seen calls for!

Private sector companies' revenues are collapsing through no fault of their own, and will remain collapsed for a while.
Private sector employees are getting laid off.

I'm not sure why public employees should be insulated from the pain being felt out there.  At the same time, they should not be disproportionately whacked, either.  Is there a basis for believing the latter is occurring?

Do you think anyone is suggesting the federal government should cover 100% of the state and local revenue shortfalls? Of course not! But since the federal government has now allocated well over $1 trillion to private sector companies, I guess the better question is why you think the public sector deserves nothing while banks, airlines, and all sorts of private employers deserve bailouts.