Would you have preferred a larger or small stimulus package as a response to the 2008-2009 recession?

That was not even what the stimulus was supposed to do. It was supposed to keep unemployment below 9% (and it was supposed to cost significantly less than it did).

And that didn't have any studies, so it's a pretty poor counterexample to the thing you're quoting. It's one op-ed and then the same survey listed twice. In the refernced Washington Post article, there were 9 studies actually performed on the subject. 2/5 of the ones using actual economic metrics disagreed that it had a large impact, and 3/9 overall (i.e. including modeling). That's absolutely disagreement.

And by the way, it is laughably dishonest to say that 12 out of 37 means there is not a debate.

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