As the Tax Foundation’s Erica York quickly pointed out, about 150 million people make less than $100,000. She noted that sending each of them a $2,000 check would cost $300 billion, and Trump’s tariffs are only projected to raise $217 billion annually.
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What’s 2k going to do? It’s a short term fix. How about we have a long term solution?
the paradoxy of tariffs:
they’re at the same time high enough that the people suffer paying them,
but at the same time, if people got the money back they paid previously, suddenly everybody complains it’s so minisculely little that it doesn’t help anyone and nobody can buy anything with it.
Buy votes.
How much does one hospital trip cost?
How much does food for a year cost?
$2000 is nothing.
25 47?
That’s not a long term solution. We’ll get “Just Dance” Vance, who will continue the project and continue dancing through 2028. The d’s need to get their shit together, and so far my expectations are buried underground.
Has politics always been this awful or am I tuning in because it’s so especially bad?
I disagree with this assessment, and I’ll tell you why: for reasons beyond my comprehension, DJT’s loyalists are attracted to his charisma and fabricated image of business acumen and machismo.
GOP party leadership has used this to their advantage, either with or without his knowledge, to push their own agenda while using POTUS as a lightning rod for the media and the plurality of voters who would never elect him to public office.
Vance has always been divisive even among DJT’s most ardent supporters. Even if somehow elevated to the position of POTUS in the next few years, he’ll never achieve the same level of party unity and public support as his predecessor.
tldr: Trump is an idiot, but he’s a useful idiot. Vance is just an idiot.
In an authoritarian regime, popularity isn’t important. Vance will do whatever he’s told.
I beg to differ, if DJT dropped dead tomorrow I don’t think Vance could carry the GOP
Yes
2+5 =7 4+7 =11
7/11?