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.
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. 😉
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.
Lie #1,572,688
This is meant to pressure SCOTUS, who are leaning towards shutting down his tariffs-because-whatever administration method.
I’m sure it will be on the same day the doge checks hit.
Where’s the doge checks ? From like February. ?
Most Respected Country In the World
[X] doubt
Corrupting voters so they don’t kill him once he takes absolute power
Paying us with our own money
Somebody said something about that, didn’t they? 🤔
Scratches brain…
“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money”
-Alexis De Tocqueville
If only, this is just the money printer going brr again.
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 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.
They will never ever see that check lol
We might. He owns the Supreme Court and Congress. For some reason they’ve abdicated all of their power and have no mind of their own.
And who’s gonna vote no?
Don’t have to. For these idiots, the fact he SAID it was coming is just as good as having done it.
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
This still doesn’t erase the fact that Donald J. Trump is a pedophile, protects pedophiles, and lied about the Epstein files.
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.
