Trump is so excited about the “revenue“ windfall from his tariffs—which, for the record, are paid by American citizens, including small business owners who import—that he is now back to floating the idea of a “dividend” for the lower and middle classes.
We’ve heard this song before. Remember back in February when Elon Musk said Americans would be getting a $5000 Doge check due to what he said would be “$2 trillion” in savings (which ended up being more like $150 billion, and even considerably less than that when all variables were factored in)? I didn’t believe him then, and I don’t believe Trump now.
Regardless, it’s a dumb idea when you consider that Americans are the ones ultimately paying for Trump‘s tariffs. If he was being honest, he would say that it was a tax rebate because tariffs are taxes on the American people.
Furthermore, we have a massive Social Security deficit coming that he should be backfilling instead of sending checks to people. In fact what he should be doing is canceling all of his tariffs, reinstating the 17% ultrarich tax, and using that revenue to replenish the Social Security fund. You know, if he was indeed a man for the people, which he clearly is not.
Instead, I believe he’s making this empty promise as yet another way to deflect attention away from the Epstein debacle and try to ingratiate himself to all of the Americans who are beyond disappointed in his economic policies and the deteriorating condition of the economy where prices are still going up on everything and employers have stopped hiring. This is a case of “bread and circus“ if there ever was one.
By the way, for those people who think this page is an anti-Trump page. Think again. We are not anti-Trump. We are anti-authoritarian government. We are anti-big brother. We are anti-job replacement technology. We are anti “tax and spend.” We are anti-tariffism. We are anti-oligarchy. We are independent libertarians who are pro-capitalism and also pro sensible regulation to ensure there is an equal economic plan field for all to participate in. Trump does not share our values, so therefore, we don’t share enthusiasm for his policies, most of which highly favored the upper upper classes.
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