Right wing left wing game aside...
With regard to the stimulus cheques themselves, we are doing the same thing up here. There is an income cap, but it is fairly high at close to $200k/yr household salary. So say you and the wife made $150K this year....how bad do you really need $500, $1,000, whatever in random gov cash? If you can't make your payments on $170K/yr household income, that is 100% a self-inflicted problem, and a grand isn't going to solve it anyways.
I would like to see a higher targeted amount go to help low income people who actually need it, lost their job, whatever. People who have actually been affected by the covid goings on, vs most people who had their busiest year ever.
On another hand, I guess we've already paid for it 1000 times anyways, so we're really just getting back some of our own $$. Weird times