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For 2020, this should be positive for the economy either way, but the biggest long-term benefit to growth would most likely come from investment in productive public infrastructure, such as physical infrastructure, education and vocational training..
The uncomfortable truth is that public health spending and policing are not likely to add directly to productivity in the short-term and so would inevitably have to be paid for through higher taxes in the long-term..
Of course these things may be a necessary public good, but their immediate effect on GDP growth is hard to quantify..
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