Its accounting, equal debits and credits and the simple algebra that creates the temporal universe reality of the policy. Thats all. It Doesn’t make any sense if you either don’t look at the process itself or your acculturated mental orthodoxies unconsciously prevent you from seeing it.

So here is both the accounting and algebraic process:

Accounting: 50% discount/sales credit of price so $100 of groceries only costs the consumer $50. Then the government or preferably the central bank rebates/debits the $50 back to the merchant so they are made whole on their entire price.

Algebra: -$50 of price + $50 monetary rebate = $0 price loss, $0 cost creation, full price for the merchant, a doubling of the individual’s purchasing power via beneficial price and asset deflation, a potential doubling of demand for the merchant’s goods and services and last but most importantly participating in the economy (which everyone must do) becomes the greatest opportunity to self actualize gratitude for a gift since meditation and prayer. In other words its Chritmas every day of the year.