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.
Archive article: https://archive.is/Ih7jO
This is easy to fix. Just increase tariffs.
“We leave this trivial exercise to the reader” or whatever they write in maths books.
the exercise:
Quick, give this guy a Nobel prize in economics!