Posted on 11/09/2025 6:36:49 AM PST by V_TWIN
While Trump is arguing for his levying of tariffs at the Supreme Court level, the President has decided what he wants to do with that money in the mean time.
This morning, President Trump announced a $2,000 dividend for all Americans from the tariff surplus. - "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. We are taking in Trillions of Dollars and will soon begin paying down our ENORMOUS DEBT, $37 Trillion. Record Investment in the USA, plants and factories going up all over the place. A dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone."
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I’d rather pay down the debt, but no marketing means no sale.
This is an attempt to make lower income voters happy. Financially it’s a bad idea, but it may actually soothe some voters.
This should also make the idiots on SC very nervous about ruling badly on Tariffs. Namely Roberts and his little lap dog Barrett.
Agree with your good point.
Sometimes ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
This is another example of the covid cash scheme, where the higher income earners didn't get anything back as well.
Potus is desperate right now. The momentum is waning. Continuing to run on high stock market is irrelevant to the poors.
Trump going off the rails again. He’ll change his mind within a couple of weeks.
Oh yeah, it’s definitely designed to offset the SNAP BS.
It’ll be interesting to see what is defined as “high income”.
Let people pay off their debts...just thinking
LOL, the devil is always in the details.
Still waiting on that $5000 rebate from DOGE and then that $2000 rebate for the tariffs...Farmers waiting on that 10 billion refund...also...
The last winbdfalls we had under Trump were 2 x $1,200.00. Paid my bill for catarcats...one eye at a time. Perfect timing!!
The own nothing’s will be happy for a while, but it won’t last. Dems need to stop their crap. Period.
Anyone over $10,000. 😃
“This should also make the idiots on SC very nervous about ruling badly on Tariffs. Namely Roberts and his little lap dog Barrett.”
Roberts is compromised and will do the bidding of the deep state.
I remember when the local homeless got their covid checks. WalMart, here we come!
It’ll be interesting to see what is defined as “high income”.
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Yes it will. And to your point, “high earners” aren’t really high earners under the SS benefits deduction that was part of the BBB.
…the tariff surplus..
Is that like the Social Security Trust Fund?
Only Congress can approve $2,000 tariff dividends checks?
The reality is that paying down the debt will just allow the Dems to spend more when they get back into power. It gives them more headroom to spend.
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