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Forget Epstein: Trump’s tariffs fuel a $27 billion surplus that even the 'MAGA' media ignores
American Thinker ^ | 07/17/2025 | Joseph Ford Cotto

Posted on 07/17/2025 11:01:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: Dat
Stop pushing YOUR "FLIES" off on me.

You don't know me, nor do you know what I think; ergo, you veiled assumptions are patently ridiculous...especially because my reply, re the Biden script, proves that I am NOT a hypocrite.

Stay in you own lane, worry about the mess YOUR country is in!

As an American I'm sick of you lot relying on America to protect you!

You once had a great military ( WW I & WW II ), but now are a flacid, ON OUR WELFARE, recipient of our strength. Bugger off!

41 posted on 07/17/2025 1:39:00 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Wuli
Its a one month “surplus” in a month that always has higher tax revenue because its a month employers and high earners make quarterly tax and estimated tax payments. This topic needs to wait and see how the numbers for July come out.

Please stop making sense…and forget about Epstein.

42 posted on 07/17/2025 1:54:41 PM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Trump & Vance, 2024! (Formerly) Goldwater & Thomas Sowell)
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To: SeekAndFind
[article] That’s right — the U.S. government, long buried under record-breaking deficits, posted a $27 billion surplus, the first for that month in eight years. And it wasn’t a fluke. It was driven largely by one policy move: tariffs.

The magic of tariffs inexplicably stopped working starting in July where the federal debt has risen over $400 Billion in 16 days.

https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/debt-to-the-penny/debt-to-the-penny

7/16/2025 $36,627,854,976,862.70
7/15/2025 $36,651,611,116,545.83
7/14/2025 $36,598,345,542,154.94
7/11/2025 $36,595,800,737,387.36
7/10/2025 $36,595,101,611,079.13
7/09/2025 $36,600,645,372,974.92
7/08/2025 $36,625,815,401,249.79
7/07/2025 $36,582,313,190,019.76
7/03/2025 $36,215,869,297,299.75
7/02/2025 $36,213,797,741,182.40

43 posted on 07/17/2025 2:06:09 PM PDT by woodpusher
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To: SeekAndFind

Not free money. Revenue from a sales tax on American consumers rather than from taxed income growth.


44 posted on 07/17/2025 2:12:38 PM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: nopardons
As an American I'm sick of you lot relying on America to protect you!

What does that have to do with Epstein? That seems a very womanlike reaction. Someone makes an argument you can't counter so you bring up a totally unrelated matter in order to gain the moral high ground.

45 posted on 07/17/2025 2:12:58 PM PDT by Dat
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To: Dat
Jolly good show;mate!

You and another poster HIGHJACKED this tread, which has less than NOTHING whatsoever to do with Epstein?

THIS THREAD IS ABOUT TARIFFS, SO LET'S TALK ABOUT TARIFFS!

46 posted on 07/17/2025 2:22:38 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons

The title of the article is “Forget about Epstein.” It kind of implies that a temporary surplus for the month of July should overshadow potential human trafficking. If that had been left off the title, then you would have a point.


47 posted on 07/17/2025 2:29:34 PM PDT by Dat
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To: Dat
Jolly good show;mate!

You and another poster HIGHJACKED this tread, which has less than NOTHING whatsoever to do with Epstein?

THIS THREAD IS ABOUT TARIFFS, SO LET'S TALK ABOUT TARIFFS!

This is great news for America and Americans; not so much for Europeans,Canadians ( Canada has been ripping America off for endless decades with 200% tariffs on our dairy products and 1005-200% on other items! ), and now the shoe is on the other foot! LOL

And our economy is at the start of BOOM times!

I brought up your ghastly military because YOU attempted to SMEAR my president, Americans who voted for Trump, and me! So I retaliated. Don't like it? DON'T claim that Trump voters/supporters have made him a "tin god"!

48 posted on 07/17/2025 2:30:08 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: so_real

If you had been keeping up with the legal facts in this circus, you would know that my mental gymnastics are those of someone who reads and pays attention to facts-not lurid, sensational clickbait. First of all, look up the definition of the term “pedophile”. And there is nothing strange about me or anyone else here pointing out that your info is incorrect...

Next, check what else Pam Bondi was saying-the only child porn ever located were videos that sleaze Epstein had purchased for himself to watch-disgusting and illegal, but there has never been any evidence that he made or facilitated the making of any child porn...

Epstein was in prison primarily for trafficking/prostituting/having sex with girls under the age of 18. Gislane Maxwell is in prison for being a procuress-providing those girls to him-she has also asked the SC for a new trial, but they have not decided yet, so all those details are sealed until they do-they are not going to go public with that just so the public can get off on it.

The girls in question-who are all adults now-were compensated by being rewarded millions of dollars in damages, as they certainly should have been. Their names are redacted and their other info sealed by the courts because they don’t want their families-husbands/kids or their employers, etc to know those details-and the general public has no right to know any of that just for a thrill, either...


49 posted on 07/17/2025 5:03:36 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"... )
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To: nopardons

“LITTLE CHILDREN”?

was How do you know there were ANY “LITTLE CHILDREN” involved? There’s never been proof, nor even talk about “LITTLE CHILDREN”, by anyone, except for posters here.

Virginia, who was a procuress of TEEN girls, was 16 and NOT a virgin when she hooked up with Epstein.”
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A 16 year old girl is still a child, regardless of how you spin it.


50 posted on 07/17/2025 5:18:23 PM PDT by Bob Wills is still the king
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To: nopardons

When I was a teen, if you were 15 and still a virgin-male or female, your friends asked you why you didn’t like sex-and I went to private school...


51 posted on 07/17/2025 5:20:22 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"... )
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To: TornadoAlley3

"He needs you?"

Well, almost. Closer to say he needs us ... MAGA. And we are still with him cheering him on when he gets it right, and trying to catch his ear when he gets it wrong. I'm told he's listening and about to get this right. We'll see. Time will tell. But, yeah, he needs all of us. It's only creepy if you choose to see it that way.


52 posted on 07/17/2025 10:09:19 PM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: nopardons

I completely agree with you. Very well said!! 👍👍


53 posted on 07/17/2025 11:05:23 PM PDT by ANKE69 (“I said once that it smells of authoritarianism in our country. Now it stinks.” Vitali Klitschko)
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To: nopardons
You seem to have mental problems. TDS from a different direction is still TDS.

Most American GDP is in blue states anyway. It isn't even close. Most of the educated workforce is also in blue states. I know you like taking credit for other people's accomplishments, but try to have a little humility. Your country's prosperity and power is based on people you despise.

54 posted on 07/17/2025 11:18:32 PM PDT by Trump4ever
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To: Bob Wills is still the king

Not under the LAW, in many countries!


55 posted on 07/18/2025 10:25:46 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: Texan5

What year was that and was it in Texas?


56 posted on 07/18/2025 10:26:41 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: ANKE69

Many thanks; much appreciated!


57 posted on 07/18/2025 10:27:13 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: Trump4ever
The only one of us, with a severe MENTAL PROBLEM, as well as ZERO READING COMPREHENSION, twee n00b, is YOU!

Please get your nice nurse at the mental asylum you are currently in, to read my post to you and explain, word by word, what I said and WHAT it REALLY means!

And just another helpful hint, didums...you try paying attention to which posters say WHAT here, before you fly off the handle and write such a pathetic, fallacious, patently ridiculous, laughingly STUPID screed again.

58 posted on 07/18/2025 10:38:09 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: SeekAndFind

Not a problem.

I have forgotten Epstein.

I have also forgotten Blondi who has went celibate as she hasn’t hooked up with a camera and microphone since she posted that unsigned memo declaring case closed nothing to see here on a holiday weekend news dump right before Bibi came to DC.

Not to mention that fellow Bongino who seems to have went into the witness protection program.

Epstein problem will probably remain forgotten as long as Blondi and the DOJ stay out of sight out mind.


59 posted on 07/18/2025 10:38:19 AM PDT by Biblebelter
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To: nopardons

That was in the late 60’s and it was in rural W. Texas, which was just following the free love hype out of Cali-just like everywhere else in the US. Are you not old enough to remember all that?


60 posted on 07/18/2025 10:40:56 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"... )
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