Posted on 07/29/2025 8:11:40 AM PDT by Red Badger
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) introduced legislation on Monday to provide Americans with tariff rebate checks of at least $600.
The checks would be for each adult and child in American families.
“Americans deserve a tax rebate after four years of Biden policies that have devastated families’ savings and livelihoods. Like President Trump proposed, my legislation would allow hard-working Americans to benefit from the wealth that Trump’s tariffs are returning to this country,” Hawley said in a statement.
NBC News has more:
Hawley, who championed stimulus check legislation with Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., during the Covid pandemic in 2020, put forward his new bill to echo that past effort. The program would be set up as a refundable tax credit, with the government sending checks this year should the bill advance through Congress and get Trump’s signature. The bill would ensure that each adult and dependent child would get at least $600. It would also allow a larger rebate per person should tariff revenue exceed projections.
The bill would reduce the rebate by 5% for joint filers who have adjusted gross income in excess of $150,000, a head of household whose income exceeds $112,500 and an individual taxpayer whose income exceeds $75,000.
The Treasury Department reported this month that customs duties totaled about $27 billion for June, an increase of about $4 billion from May. But June also saw inflation tick up slightly as Trump’s wide-ranging tariffs started to work through the U.S. economy. The independent Tax Foundation projected that Trump’s tariffs would raise $2.5 trillion in revenue over the next decade, but that, through price increases, they would effectively increase taxes on the average U.S. household by nearly $1,300 this year and nearly $1,700 in 2026, should they remain in full effect.
“Great news on President Trump’s EU deal. 15% tariffs – more tariff money! Which means more money for rebates for working people,” Hawley said Monday.
President Trump said last week he was considering rebate checks due to the amount of money from tariffs.
Here’s the clip:
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The Center Square provided further info:
President Trump has been working to reorder global trade through tariffs to give U.S. companies an advantage at home. He has said he is open to rebate checks for Americans.
Trump has said he wants to use tariffs to restore manufacturing jobs lost to lower-wage countries in decades past, shift the tax burden away from U.S. families and pay down the national debt.
Economists, businesses and some publicly traded companies have warned that tariffs could raise prices on a wide range of consumer products.
A tariff is a tax on imported goods paid by the person or company that imports the goods. The importer can absorb the cost of the tariffs or try to pass the cost on to consumers through higher prices.
lets see... the country is deep in debt, with lingering inflation still a problem.
So... lets take this extra money, and instead of reducing debt, just give it out, which will push more cash into the system, therefore raising prices.
Dumbest f’ing idea i’ve ever heard.
Do we really need these gimmicks? Just stop wasting money!! Not that some extra money wouldn’t be nice for everyone, but the effect could be inflationary...
Bad idea. Remember all the fraud around those Covid relief checks? Well, expect more of the same with tariff rebate checks. Put the money towards paying down the debt instead. That would be the responsible thing to do.
On the other hand, Democrats have been buying votes forever. I suppose Republicans would like to give it a try, too.
Democrats: The Party of Treason
GOP: The Stupid Party
Either pay down the debt or use the money for primary and secondary school vouchers.
Bad idea. First, there is no way to relate the amount of the rebate to the amount the recipient spent on tariff products. Indeed, I expect the most vocal groups in favor of the rebates are the same people who spent the least on tariff products. Second, there are better ways to use the funds, like paying down the debt that you clowns in DC have racked up.
I agree—this is a completely retarded idea.
Retards.
Split it 50-50 between deficit reduction and missile procurement.
THAT is in the best interests of the American people.
Just pay the debt. Stop trying to buy votes.
Yes, they spiked the inflation big time.
In a perfect world maybe, but there are millions who want to see something concrete and even a $600 check is what is needed on the campaign trail for the mid terms. Kind of like a goodwill insurance everyone will remember to get through the decade.
QE was the first step of revealing the true meaning of money.
This idea just continues that path.
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There are two aspects to tariffs. They are to bring manufacturing home. They are to generate government revenue.
The two are mutually exclusive. If you bring manufacturing home, you stop generating that revenue. And if you are generating revenue, that means you failed to bring manufacturing home.
Heads up, folks. Study the “deals” carefully. Not the Administration’s propaganda. The actual financial analysis.
It all started with the Japan deal last week, announcing how they were going to invest $550B in the US. The EU “deal” also has a feature like this.
Well, Japan elaborated on that and our MSM did not pick it up. Finance outlets did. Japan has said no, they were not sending $550B to the US to invest for a 90/10 profit split in favor of the US. What the “investment” category included was loans, loan guarantees and equity.
Japan says only about 1% of the total will be equity with that 90/10 profit split. The remainder of the $550B is to be loans — with the US paying interest on that loan.
Truth is, there is no scarcity of bank lending in the US. Japan was not required for loaned money, but that’s what the deal is, and the interest rate will be negotiated with Japan insisting on extra to cover that 1% equity with 90/10 split.
The same will hold true for the EU’s investment portion. The energy buy portion is completely undefined, particularly as to timeframe. It’s pretty easy to get $700B energy buy . . . over 20 years.
“Dumbest f’ing idea i’ve ever heard.”
From a financial perspective.
From a political perspective it is a great populist move.
You are 100% right. 👍👍
> there is no way to relate the amount of the rebate to the amount the recipient spent on tariff products <
Right. Plus there’s no easy way to verify that the recipients even exist. Like I mentioned earlier, it will be the Covid relief fraud all over again.
Then the Feds can spend the next 10 years tracking down people who submitted fake information and got huge rebate checks.
An attempt at vote buying. Plain and simple.
Dems aren’t the only ones who do it.
Interesting. Back in the day returning money to taxpayers was a good thing!
PAY DOWN THE DEBT!
How about cutting spending and paying down the debt?
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