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Full of shit. Remember the so called 'DOGE Stimulis'?
This is the same deal.
your check will arrive in 2 weeks!
That will be the first 2 weeks of March 2084, check your mail you could be a winner.
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.
At this point who cares?
National debt? Isnt that like our high score?
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).
This still doesn't erase the fact that Donald J. Trump is a pedophile, protects pedophiles, and lied about the Epstein files.
This reads like pure campaign theater wrapped in gaslighting. Trump promises a mysterious "$2000 dividend" while calling critics fools, then his Treasury guy says he hasn't even talked to him about it. Vague, uncosted, and probably designed to make headlines.
Remember how tariffs actually work: they are a tax on imports that businesses usually pass on to consumers, and they hit lower and middle income people harder. Where is the money really coming from, who defines "high income," and how do you square higher consumer prices with a big cash payout? It doesn't add up.
Short version, trust the details not the chest-thumping. If he actually wants to give people $2000, put a clear, audited plan on the table. Until then this is just noise.
Doesn't matter. Anyone who understands what tarrifs are isn't his target audience, the dullards who voted for him will just see a $2000 cheque with 'DONALD J. TRUMP' on the bottom and think that they got free money for nothing from king kiddyfucker.
Rumours will start in deep red communities that democrat voters didn’t get one, further proving Trump is their golden god as they high five and laugh.
Wonder how long $2000 will last, paying for all those tariffed goods. Wonder who will make the money in the end...
Remember how tariffs actually work: they are a tax on imports that businesses usually pass on to consumers
The argument for tariffs basically boils down to profit margin. If you're selling a $100 good into the US that cost you $15 to produce and another $5 to ship, there's a reason to believe you're willing to eat another $15 in import taxes to collect that $80 in profit.
If a business can pass the cost on to the consumer, the issue isn't strictly with the tariffs. It's the absence of alternatives at home that can retail for under $100.
But that's just "business math for dummies". Manufactured goods can cross borders multiple times in the assembling process. And with the sloppy execution of the tarrif, it seems like a single product can be taxed with each crossing. That's a bureaucratic trainwreck for a multitude of reasons. Businesses can't absorb these costs even with enormous margins.
Where is the money really coming from, who defines “high income,” and how do you square higher consumer prices with a big cash payout?
Money comes from the Treasury. High income is a statutory definition. And you don't need to square it, because people aren't tracking the balance.
If he actually wants to give people $2000, put a clear, audited plan on the table.
He's never done that before. Why start now?
Exactly
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.
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.
I think he might be lying
You can tell because his mouth is open
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.
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'?
"Mission accomplished"
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.
Honestly at this point you have to wonder if he's trying to cause hyperinflation and is just really bad it.
He and his litany of last-mans-in-the-room are all balls deep in crypto after all.
They won't have the money period to do anything useful for a long time.
FEEDING Starving children is SOCIALISM! Giving Every American $2000 is GOOD CAPITALISTIC POLICY!
It’s a weak bribe.
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.
Maybe he meant the opposite, to be paid exclusively to millionaires
Would be great if true. Hard doubt though.
That's some desperate shit there....
Now republicans love redistribution of wealth
... and liars lie.