Posted on 11/25/2025 11:02:36 AM PST by V_TWIN
Sen. Ron Johnson rejected President Trump’s proposal to shell out $2,000 “tariff dividend” checks to Americans before the 2026 midterm elections, arguing that money should be used to reduce the federal deficit.
Johnson (R-Wis.) praised the idea during an interview with Fox Business Network’s “Mornings With Maria” Monday, but insisted getting the country’s fiscal house back in order was more important.
The payments would require approval from the Republican-controlled Congress, with Johnson and other GOPers indicating the proposal is dead on arrival.
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“Tariffs on imported goods are a new revenue source paid by exporters for the privilege of selling their product in America.”
No. The foreign exporters do not pay the tariff. The U.S. importer pays the tariff at the time the goods are checked by U.S. customs at the port of entry.
When costs are passed on to consumers, it does not mean the consumer will then buy a “U.S.” made item, becomes the reality is it does not mean there is a comparable U.S. made item. For most item, a comparable item is another foreign import with a company who as managed to keep their prices competitive by cutting costs elsewhere, not by avoiding the tariff.
As to whether or not the tariff costs have been inflationary? It seems not.
That does not change either that tariffs ARE paid by the U.S. domestic importer, amounting to a tax for them, and the tariff revenue has not changed the federal deficit and debt outlook materially.
“According to stock trading data platform Quiver Quantitative, Greene has executed 450 stock trades since 2021, the year she joined the House.”
So maybe (a) she went to Congress to get insider (what’s happening with legislation and federal policies) information with which to determine best investments, and (b) she thinks she has profited enough on that gig and will now try something else. My guess is she will become a TV media personality for ABC, or CBS, or NBC, or CNN, and that wanting a Trump critic who is former MAGA they will offer her a high 7-figure salary.
I stand corrected. However Trump is collecting new tariff revenue as America had low tariffs while foreign countries like the EU, South Korea, Japan and China practiced unfair trade by penalizing American products with high tariffs if not an outright ban on their entry.
When a product is imported, the importer of record pays the tariff.
Here’s how it works:
ChatGPT: Who actually pays the tariff?
The importer—usually a company in the destination country—must pay the tariff to that country’s customs agency before the goods are released.
This cost is often later passed on to consumers through higher prices, but legally the importer pays it.
Pogue Colonel: Then how about getting with the program? Why don’t you jump on the team and come on in for the big win?
Anything might benefit citizens like this or building the wall back in 2017, we hear that we can't afford it.
But, each year, tens of billions of dollars are waste on pork barrel spending that help those in Congress get reelected or that push some ideological agenda.
Yet when it comes to them giving themselves a pay raise...
Give the money to the people? Ridiculous. Give it to the insurance companies. Or give it to democrats to “pay down the deficit.” !
Mike never learned of the Widow’s mite
LUKE 21:
21 And He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury, 2 and He saw also a certain poor widow putting in two mites.[a] 3 So He said, “Truly I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all; 4 for all these out of their abundance have put in offerings [b]for God, but she out of her poverty put in all the livelihood that she had.”
Where the purse strings are suppose to reside.
I want my(tax) money back...govt can afford all these illegals and Argentine cattle ranchers and the corrupt dancing dictator in Ukraine.,it can afford a little for each of us.
How about all those who don’t think it’s a good idea just refuse it or better yet,send it to me.
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And no rich senator, so called “Republican” should be spewing forth who never has to live with it:
LUKE 21:
21 And He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury, 2 and He saw also a certain poor widow putting in two mites.[a] 3 So He said, “Truly I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all; 4 for all these out of their abundance have put in offerings [b]for God, but she out of her poverty put in all the livelihood that she had.”
Q. When will government spending be reigned in and the debt reduced ?
A. Never
When Trump is ready to pay off the debt, he will.
In the mean time if the choice is between giving the money to citizens OR putting it in some slush fund - I’d go with giving half of it to citizens and the other half to where Trump thinks it would do the most good.
The importer is a U.S. based company buying imported goods from a foreign country.
The objection of the foreign country is not that they are going to pay the tariff; they’re not. The objection of the foreign country is the impact on how many items less will be imported from them, due to the tariff. The reduced trade, sales to us, is their objection because they will be getting fewer sales from U.S. importers, because the increased price the importer will want, due to the tariff, will send U.S. companies buying less from U.S. importers.
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