President Donald Trump on Sunday claimed that a “dividend of at least $2000 a person” will be paid to all Americans except for “high-income people,” saying the country is now wealthy as a result of his tariff policies.
“People that are against Tariffs are FOOLS! We are now the Richest, Most Respected Country In the World, With Almost No Inflation, and A Record Stock Market Price. 401k’s are Highest EVER,” the president wrote.
$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.
“We have the concept of doing a rebate”
Here comes another trillion in debt in one month instead of three.
Oh boy, that’ll cover a few months of increased expenses…
Pay down the maxed out credit card a little.
As a treat.
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.
Dollar devaluation in 3, 2, 1…
Is that so we all have to give it back if the scotus declares the tariffs illegal?
Making people pay tariffs and then giving back some of the money. Brilliant
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
Not the “American voter”, the Republican voter.
1- no he won’t.
2- even if he does it’s going to be a disastrous shit show.
It would be hilariously inflationary. It would give the final nudge for all the companies to drop the full tariff burden on their customers. Spending spree, everything goes up by 10% over a few months, 3 months later everyone is poorer than they were before.
Why weren’t the tariffs to raise this money deflationary?
Theoretically, the money should be staying in the economy so the supply of USD in circulation wouldn’t change. But since nobody really knows where that money is going, it’s hard to know. I’m not an expert though so I could be wrong.
And then they force you to pay it back in your taxes like they did with the covid stimulus.
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 = $1,287.55Not awful, until you realize that’s how much these taxes soaked you for in the first place. 😉
And the average person got soaked for more than they even can get back, because tariffs have significant deadweight losses.
Lie #1,572,688
I’m sure it will be on the same day the doge checks hit.
I heard they’re going to do it on the last day of infrastructure week
You can expect them in about 2 weeks
Where’s the doge checks ? From like February. ?
