Given that it's cash payments "each month", how can that be short term? If all recipients simultaneously wanted to spend the money on burritos, by month 2 there

Given that it's cash payments "each month", how can that be short term? If all recipients simultaneously wanted to spend the money on burritos, by month 2 there's going to be a lot more restaurants selling burritos. A better use of the money is infrastructure spending. It provides employment across multiple sectors and targeted correctly is one of the best investments a government can make.