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[–] 102 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

What's high income 30k a year or more? Such a joke...

The $2,000 dividend could come in lots of forms, in lots of ways, George," Bessent told anchor George Stephanopoulos. "You know, it could be just the tax decreases that we are seeing on the president's agenda -- you know, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security, deductibility of auto loans."

Oh so no money for you

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    So what this means is there will be no $2000 check. It will just be "hidden" relief that is almost impossible to actually see and verify. Cool cool cool

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  • [–] 83 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I'll add that to my $5,000 DOGE dividend. Why do news outlets report what he says when he's obviously lying?

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I’ll bet money that he’s going to actually try to do this.

    Remember when Congress voted to send Americans assistance checks during the pandemic — and Trump plastered his name all over those checks for shameless political points?

    This guy 100% wants to send out “Trump” checks again.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, I think he both really wants to do it, and at the same time is absolutely lying about having done any actual work or planning to make it happen. Trump love nothing more than to just hang stuff out there, knowing full well he'll capture the news cycle whether or not anything actually has a chance of happening here. But literally the entire country is now governed based on a large group of cronies and enablers trying to interpret his stray demented thoughts, so I'm not sure what we expected.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Because in theory that's just what news outlets should be doing. He says something and they should bring that to the people. Whether or not it is a lie or the public considers it a lie is not news YET. We're better of receiving this information even if we know it to be a lie because we should be up to date of whatever the turd is saying.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    No, it really isn't. That's a press release. Or the Truth post Trump made.

    News filters for worthy events, explains mechanics, and adds other context to help its readers understand why this thing is worth knowing and what it might mean.

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  • [–] 65 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Trump steals people's money, then gives some back to them, and that's supposed to pacify them?
    How about not stealing people's money to begin with?

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    and that's supposed to pacify them?

    Every single MAGAt will instantly forget any complaints the second they have a check in hand.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    It doesn't actually sound like anyone will get a check "lots of ways" probably means it's never going to happen, but all the MAGAs will point to him just saying this and gushing about how generous he is

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    That's weird, because the COVID checks were insanely popular and just giving everyone a $2000 check with his name on it would be great politics. I guess it's good they're doing it differently.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Well you have to factor 2 things, there still was a battle with congress to get those checks out during covid. (I remember Bernie walking into congress with the massive printout of trumps tweet saying he was going to send out checks), and of course factoring in that trump knew he wanted to get elected again. It's 3 years away from the next presidential election... and him getting a 3rd term probably doesn't involve an election.

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    [–] 48 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    $2000 a person won't even offset the additional cost from the ACA subsidy reduction. So, a one-time check that would only cover several months of the recurring cost that he's given us.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    When you’re that rich, $2000 and $0 are basically the same. It’s a pittance for what they see as an underclass of poors.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago*

    I think a lot of people don't get this.

    Imagine there's something that you want--maybe a lot, maybe only a little. What that something is doesn't matter.

    What amount of money would you consider to be a negligible amount for you to spend to get that thing you want? Maybe it's a few dollars or maybe it's as little as 10 cents. For me, now that I am reasonably comfortable, anything that only costs about a dollar, I consider to basically be free.

    This is how the wealthy view anything that is "only" in the thousands of dollars.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Lol, bet he's only saying this so when the Supreme Court comes down on his illegal tariffs he can say he was going to give us that money.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago

    Technically, If the Supreme Court rules that his tariffs were illegal to begin with, he will be expected to reimburse everyone affected. That may be all this is. He's just trying to spin it as spontaneous generosity, rather than a court ordered obligation.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    How about you use that money to pay SNAP instead?

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    Not happening

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    i believe it when i see it. he's announced the same thing back in may and nothing happened.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    In two weeks. Very special. Don't want to say much now but it's gonna be really special.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Just ballparking that there are 250 million non-high-earners, at $2k a pop that's $500 billion. Two thousand dollars won't change anyone's life, but $500bn is a big chunk of the federal budget.

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  • $2k is a whole lot of money, especially if you consider that most people will immediately spend it, so other people will earn it. a dollar goes much further than only one dollar if it moves through many hands.

    also, what do you think is the total cost that tariffs have cost you since january?

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Is this dividend in the room with us right now?

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    The ultra wealthy already got their 'tariff dividend', in the form of not tax breaks and a discrete heads-up of when to play the market to real maybe amounts of extra wealth.

    As for the rest, this offer is just more bullshit. If it does surface (which is very unlikely) there will be some strings attached. And it will in no way fully compensate most people for the turmoil caused by these tariffs.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    So this is where snap money has gone too

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    So a $2k decrease in taxes using some kind of unspecified math, while cost of living increases by triple that number.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    "I pay $1,000 more a month per rent than when trump first took office, pay 20% more taxes but he did send me a one time check for $2000"

    Also the news should compare it to similar promises like "free fertility treatment" that he abandoned as soon as the news cycle was over.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago*

    How about "There is Zero Evidence of $2000 Trump Checks Beyond Mere Words" as the headline ABC? Christ. Or "Trump Floats Idea of $2000 Checks, Or Maybe It's a Tax Rebate, Or Maybe Nothing, Or Maybe He Just Says Shit and We Eat It Up Every Time. Who Cares? Just Stay Scared and Don't Change That Dial!"

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I’ll take it the way I took his stupid ass signed pandemic check. It’s not gonna make me hate the fucker any less, and I’m not stupid enough to think the amount of money the average person has lost on these fucking tariffs is less than $2000. So yeah, pay me to keep the same opinion of you and your policies, shithead.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Also hand out cash to people for their medical bills bypassing insurance companies:

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15272123/donald-trump-healthcare-plan-change.html

    Obvs that's a lot worse than it sounds.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Lolz, for them it’s $5,000.

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  • Where exactly does that money come from? We end up paying more for it in the end due to inflation and it all trickles up as we spend it.

    We need to raise taxes on the ruling class. There is no other way.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Oh look.. Little ManBaby is trying to buy friends.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    "The $2,000 dividend could come in lots of forms, in lots of ways, George," Bessent told anchor George Stephanopoulos. "You know, it could be just the tax decreases that we are seeing on the president's agenda -- you know, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security, deductibility of auto loans."

    🚨scam alert🚨

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    That's gonna barely buy most families a month

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    This orange fuck with his grossly transparent attempts to bribe the poors

    The sad part is it'll probably work.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Well this wasn't on my bingo card lol

    Someone in the US care to explain?

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  • His only policy is to punish Democrats. I don't know how he'll do it but I absolutely guarantee he will do everything in his power to keep assistance out of the hands of people who won't vote red.

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