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He says a lot of things. Meanwhile he’s gone out of his way repeatedly to try to starve millions of people.
Lol, bet he’s only saying this so when the Supreme Court comes down on his illegal tariffs he can say he was going to give us that money.
He won’t remember any of this by tomorrow, much less when or if SCrOTUS does anything.
I was just about to, but you interrupted me!
Technically, If the Supreme Court rules that his tariffs were illegal to begin with, he will be expected to reimburse everyone affected. That may be all this is. He’s just trying to spin it as spontaneous generosity, rather than a court ordered obligation.
remember his 1500% reduction in medications, we never heard of it again after he mentioned it.
In two weeks. Very special. Don’t want to say much now but it’s gonna be really special.
The Trump 2 week chicken taco timeline.
He started with “solving crime in Chicago in 1 day”
Then they had a Medicare plan just a week away, but he learned that that was too close for the right wing spin machine.
To be fair, he has followed through on his promise to be a “dictator on day 1”.
I’ll take it the way I took his stupid ass signed pandemic check. It’s not gonna make me hate the fucker any less, and I’m not stupid enough to think the amount of money the average person has lost on these fucking tariffs is less than $2000. So yeah, pay me to keep the same opinion of you and your policies, shithead.
I donated mine 50/50 to Planned Parenthood and SPLC. I don’t want his blood money.
I’m glad that’s a financial option for you
“The $2,000 dividend could come in lots of forms, in lots of ways, George,” Bessent told anchor George Stephanopoulos. “You know, it could be just the tax decreases that we are seeing on the president’s agenda – you know, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security, deductibility of auto loans.”
🚨scam alert🚨
Yeah, I’m on SSD and don’t even make enough to pay taxes to begin with, nor can I drive. If I have to shop around for insurance to replace Medicaid I’ll just get denied for pre-existing conditions
As far as I know, those haven’t been reestablished, but you can bet it’s on the list.
Lolz, for them it’s $5,000.
That’s gonna barely buy most families a month
$2000 a person won’t even offset the additional cost from the ACA subsidy reduction. So, a one-time check that would only cover several months of the recurring cost that he’s given us.
When you’re that rich, $2000 and $0 are basically the same. It’s a pittance for what they see as an underclass of poors.
for rich and poor alike. Its only relavent for people who are just getting by. If your staring down homelessness it will be delayed for a month. The government was shutdown for longer.
I think a lot of people don’t get this.
Imagine there’s something that you want–maybe a lot, maybe only a little. What that something is doesn’t matter.
What amount of money would you consider to be a negligible amount for you to spend to get that thing you want? Maybe it’s a few dollars or maybe it’s as little as 10 cents. For me, now that I am reasonably comfortable, anything that only costs about a dollar, I consider to basically be free.
This is how the wealthy view anything that is “only” in the thousands of dollars.
It also won’t make up for the small businesses that went under because their margins disappeared.
The ultra wealthy already got their ‘tariff dividend’, in the form of not tax breaks and a discrete heads-up of when to play the market to real maybe amounts of extra wealth.
As for the rest, this offer is just more bullshit. If it does surface (which is very unlikely) there will be some strings attached. And it will in no way fully compensate most people for the turmoil caused by these tariffs.
Is this dividend in the room with us right now?
He has concepts of a dividend.
Trump steals people’s money, then gives some back to them, and that’s supposed to pacify them?
How about not stealing people’s money to begin with?deleted by creator
Welcome to the game they all taught us not to play.
why not steal it from other rich people and give to the actual people.
and that’s supposed to pacify them?
Every single MAGAt will instantly forget any complaints the second they have a check in hand.
It doesn’t actually sound like anyone will get a check “lots of ways” probably means it’s never going to happen, but all the MAGAs will point to him just saying this and gushing about how generous he is
That’s weird, because the COVID checks were insanely popular and just giving everyone a $2000 check with his name on it would be great politics. I guess it’s good they’re doing it differently.
Well you have to factor 2 things, there still was a battle with congress to get those checks out during covid. (I remember Bernie walking into congress with the massive printout of trumps tweet saying he was going to send out checks), and of course factoring in that trump knew he wanted to get elected again. It’s 3 years away from the next presidential election… and him getting a 3rd term probably doesn’t involve an election.
Bread and circuses
that was pretty much hamstrung by lich mcconnel, who laughed at the idea of giving poors anything, hes worst than trump by the way, until THE LICH WAS PRESSURE to vote on it.
choco rations increased to twenty grams a week
Hello, let me introduce you to capitalism
Oh look… Little ManBaby is trying to buy friends.
It’ll probably work, too, if he does it a month before midterms.
How about you use that money to pay SNAP instead?
Because he can say this and it won’t happen.
Just ballparking that there are 250 million non-high-earners, at $2k a pop that’s $500 billion. Two thousand dollars won’t change anyone’s life, but $500bn is a big chunk of the federal budget.
2k would save me rn.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to trivialize that amount of money.
$2k is a whole lot of money, especially if you consider that most people will immediately spend it, so other people will earn it. a dollar goes much further than only one dollar if it moves through many hands.
also, what do you think is the total cost that tariffs have cost you since january?
Also hand out cash to people for their medical bills bypassing insurance companies:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15272123/donald-trump-healthcare-plan-change.html
Obvs that’s a lot worse than it sounds.
