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Making people pay tariffs and then giving back some of the money. Brilliant
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And the morons will love it!
Reminds me of the W rebates, it was some 600 $ per person or some bullshit as he completely fucked the economy and put huge amounts of debt on the next generation.
But again, the moron American Voter fell for it becuase of course they did
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Sounds like adding more to the national debt to me.
What do I care? It's all funny money anyway.
Not that Donnie Dipshit is actually going to deliver. But I'm tried of hearing about the deficit whenever "money for plebs" is on the table. Then Israel or Argentina gets $40B no questions asked. Nobody seems to bat an eye.
You paid him more than his bullshit 2k anyway. Weren’t the earliest estimates like 3.5k annual per household? Not to mention, you can’t buy my complacency on dismantling of the economy. Fuck Trump. I’d rather eat roaches than take his stimulus.
You can't buy my complacancy... but you can try. Maybe try again, just to be sure.
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Interesting: I guess we're about to officially find out just who he considers "a person".
If there are any anti-maga republicans in the future reading this, it's an excellent opportunity to run a campaign on MAGA incompetence giving out cash to illegals (obviously false but red tie voters won't know that).
So far, there has been $200B collected in tariffs as of September. Some estimates are saying $300B by end of year.
https://www.crfb.org/blogs/tariff-revenue-soars-fy-2025-amid-legal-uncertainty
The current estimated US population is 340 million.
https://www.census.gov/popclock/
Take off 10% for "the wealthy", that leaves 306,000,000.
I can't imagine Trump giving $2,000 to kids, so knock off anyone under 18, that's another 73 million off the list.
So round about 233,000,000 people getting $2,000 checks?
$466 billion. Oops. Hey Donnie, you're short somewhere between $166 and $266 billion.
So how much COULD people get?
$200B / 233M = $858.37
$300B / 233M = $1,287.55
Not awful, until you realize that's how much these taxes soaked you for in the first place. 😉
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That doesn't even offset the higher cost of living caused by the tariffs in the first place. As usual, GOP writing "stimulus" checks to distract from the grift.
1- no he won't.
2- even if he does it's going to be a disastrous shit show.
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And then they force you to pay it back in your taxes like they did with the covid stimulus.
Paying us with our own money
Somebody said something about that, didn't they? 🤔
Scratches brain...
“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money”
-Alexis De Tocqueville
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Biden giving people 1400 cheques to offset a huge natural global disaster
republicans: 🫷🤬
Trump giving people 2000 dollar cheques to make up for an emergency of his own creation
republicans:: 🥵
$2000 would do almost nothing to improve my life. It's a rent payment. Just die already trump.
I bet all the federal workers out of a paycheck right now are gonna be really thankful for getting 2k instead of a stable income.
Meanwhile, the corporate parasites are already salivating at the prospect of the indirect cash injection from government coffers.
In other words we will partially give back what you lost through tariffs and pretend like that was a net benefit for y'all.
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Oh boy, that'll cover a few months of increased expenses...
Lie #1,572,688
This still doesn't erase the fact that Donald J. Trump is a pedophile, protects pedophiles, and lied about the Epstein files.
That'll solve all the fucking problems right there! Ooo a measly one time 2k! Fuck we're saved! All praise the rapist-in-chief!
The tariffs are just a tax on -us- in the first place, easily exceeding $2k; so this isn't some gift, it's a partial return on a tax that shouldn't exist in the first place.
Like, this is the school bully stealing your lunch money, then throwing the metal change back at you.
Orange shit stain owes us a LOT more than $2k.
I'm sure it will be on the same day the doge checks hit.
When that perfect medical system to replace "Obamacare" kicks in.
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"We have the concept of doing a rebate"
FEEDING Starving children is SOCIALISM! Giving Every American $2000 is GOOD CAPITALISTIC POLICY!
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Meanwhile he's preventing SNAP benefits that average less than $200 per household (not even per person). And that have already been approved and allocated by Congress, he's just preventing it from being distributed.
I think he might be lying
You can tell because his mouth is open
"Mission accomplished"
Here comes another trillion in debt in one month instead of three.
I like redistributing wealth, no complaints here, but as a response to Trump's claims of a wealth government I offer a reminder to everyone here that Trump decreased federal income and increased the 5 year deficit by about 7 Trillion by the lowest estimates. The US Government does not have the money to do this.
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[X] doubt
Dollar devaluation in 3, 2, 1...
Trump suggesting any sort of UBI was not on my bingo card for this year. You just know there's going to be some sort of catch.
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We're gonna charge you $5000 in tariffs and then give you back $2000! This is clearly great for you and great for America.
But I still get a hammock right?
Where's the doge checks ? From like February. ?
will be paid to all Americans except for “high-income people,”
The only reason anyone ever does means testing...
Is to make people who dont get something, pissed off at the rest. Too many people are uniting against the wealthy, they need to get the bottom 99% fighting again.
so the new magat plan is to try to buy the midterms using cash borrowed from our great-grandkids after they 'save' the country from the 'democrat shutdown'?
This is meant to pressure SCOTUS, who are leaning towards shutting down his tariffs-because-whatever administration method.
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