Why a stimulus can’t wait: Second wave has created massive uncertainty. Only answer is massive spending SECTIONS Why a stimulus can’t wait: Second wave has created massive uncertainty. Only answer is massive spendingBy Share Synopsis Four months after Sitharaman’s best budget, the worst sort of uncertainty confronts every economic decision-maker, from migrant workers to middle class professionals to maharajas of India Inc. TOI-Online “The budget … will have to go down to the people,” FM Sitharaman told TOI, answering this newspaper’s question on whether GoI should provide a large economic stimulus. Her point being that critics asking for a fiscal boost should recognise that we are just two months into the new financial year, and that the budget’s expenditure package, designed for a “Covid-affected economy”, should be allowed to play out.