Some of us warned when the idea of cash payments to most citizens was first proposed that throwing money blindly at people, irrespective of personal need or circumstance, was not the best way to respond to the coronavirus. The Swamp went ahead and did it anyway, with even President Trump green-lighting the $2.2 trillion in debt piled onto future generations in hopes that the $1,200 taxpayer-funded checks sent to eligible adults would help stimulate the economy.

We had already seen this hilarious, if disturbing, result in widespread internet boasting from millennials and members of Generation Z alike about wasting “Dad Trump bucks” on pornography, drugs, and more. Now, new polling empirically suggests the checks have largely failed to stimulate spending, just as critics predicted.