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Interesting: I guess we're about to officially find out just who he considers "a person".
Making people pay tariffs and then giving back some of the money. Brilliant
Sounds like adding more to the national debt to me.
Paying us with our own money
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. 😉
1- no he won't.
2- even if he does it's going to be a disastrous shit show.
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.
Lie #1,572,688
I think he might be lying
"Mission accomplished"
Oh boy, that'll cover a few months of increased expenses...
$2000 would do almost nothing to improve my life. It's a rent payment. Just die already trump.
And then they force you to pay it back in your taxes like they did with the covid stimulus.
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.
This still doesn't erase the fact that Donald J. Trump is a pedophile, protects pedophiles, and lied about the Epstein files.
I'm sure it will be on the same day the doge checks hit.
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'?
Most Respected Country In the World
[X] doubt
In other words we will partially give back what you lost through tariffs and pretend like that was a net benefit for y'all.
Where's the doge checks ? From like February. ?
That's some desperate shit there....
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.
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:: 🥵
This is meant to pressure SCOTUS, who are leaning towards shutting down his tariffs-because-whatever administration method.
Here comes another trillion in debt in one month instead of three.
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!
"We have the concept of doing a rebate"
Great, jobs are being lost at record rates, but here's two grand. Cool. Part of my rent can be paid now for one month.
Would be great if true. Hard doubt though.
... and liars lie.
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.
Dollar devaluation in 3, 2, 1...
All I see anymore is, "Trump said stuff". When are those grocery prices coming down?
We're gonna charge you $5000 in tariffs and then give you back $2000! This is clearly great for you and great for America.
Corrupting voters so they don't kill him once he takes absolute power
Maybe he meant the opposite, to be paid exclusively to millionaires
Is that so we all have to give it back if the scotus declares the tariffs illegal?
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