It doesn't work that way in Australia either. Unless he's talking about tax breaks, but he's not.

In Australia there were two main forms of stimulus - Jobkeeper and Jobseeker.

Jobkeeper was given to businesses that had a 30% downturn in their revenue directly due to COVID shutdowns ordered by the government, so that they could stand down workers and pay them a decent amount of money to live off in the meantime, thus avoiding having to lay off workers. If your business didn't meet stringent criteria, the business didn't get Jobkeeper. If you weren't stood down by your employer, you don't get Jobkeeper either.

Jobseeker was given to unemployed people who were either looking for jobs during COVID when the job market dried up OR people who were laid off during COVID. It was part of our Centrelink welfare system and basically was temporary increase to the dole.

Neither of these btw were a "stimulus check" in the US sense. Like a random lump sum of money. That's not how Australian stimulus worked. And Tim would NOT have qualified for either Jobseeker or Jobkeeper unless he fudged numbers somewhere to try and qualify which he would have had to make an effort to do (which goes against his claim that he doesn't want stimulus but got it anyway).

Now he would almost certainly have gotten a tax cut, because the Australian government cut taxes for people making six figures by raising the bar for the 40% tax rate, as such he probably is paying less tax now. But that's NOT a stimulus check. It's a tax break. Different thing altogether.

I normally like Tim's articles but I call BS on this one.