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Helicopter drops are monetary policy, the aff is fiscal.

Stanislas Jourdan 17, Executive Director of Positive Money Europe. Masters in Entrepreneurship, 4/21/2017, "QE FOR PEOPLE AND BASIC INCOME: SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES," https://www.positivemoney.eu/2017/04/basic-income-helicopter-money-similarities-differences/

From those different objectives also stem different institutional frameworks. If the objective of helicopter money’s proponents is merely to stimulate demand, then transfers to citizens is only one practical means by which to achieve this single clear goal. From this viewpoint, it also makes sense to give independent central banks the legal capacity to distribute a citizens’ dividend as a new instrument in the monetary policy toolbox.

If basic income pursues more numerous and complex objectives, by contrast, it then makes sense that it should be the responsibility of elected governments to design and implement it, just like any other fiscal policy.

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