The article “Here’s how to get your free covid-19 tests” (Sept. 25, TribLIVE) is inaccurate. The tests are not “free,” nor were they “free” when “the White House launched the program to allow Americans to request free at-home covid-19 tests in January 2022.”
It costs money to pay for these tests. Somebody is paying for them. President Biden may claim he is paying for them, but he doesn’t have that kind of money. The government has only two sources: from taxes collected or by printing more money. Just printing money without collecting it is inflation, and everybody pays for it in the long run through higher prices.
You need to focus more on the ridiculous rate of inflation in the past few months than on Biden’s efforts to supply “free” covid tests. In the long run, nothing that “the government pays for” is free.
Richard F. Flickinger
Ligonier