Trump tariffs expected to slam Americans with $2,000 cost-of-living surge in 2026

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1. Who can afford this!!??!

2. Its almost as if taxes increase the cost of living and lower everyones standard of living, yet redditors cant connect the dots and want to steal more from (tax) the most productive people

3. But billionaires will skim another billion off your broken back so it’s fine.

4. SLAM

5. We still have 5 months of 2025 and tariffs are scheduled to hit grocery stores shelves shortly. 

6. It’s the patriot tax lol

7. I’m not fan of Trump, but frankly, basing this on tariffs, it is fairly straightforward to see that the math doesn’t math…There would have to be substantial acceleration in tariff receipts to get to $2000 per adult. Ballpark:

   |Month (calendar)|2024 net customs duties† (US $ bn)|2025 net customs duties (US $ bn)|YoY Δ (2025‑2024, bn)|
   |:-|:-|:-|:-|
   |Jan|≈ 7.1 ‡|7.34 ‡|**+0.24**|
   |Feb|≈ 6.9 ‡|[Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-us-taking-2-billion-day-tariffs-2025-04-08/)7.25 ( )|**+0.35**|
   |Mar|[Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-march-budget-deficit-falls-161-bln-customs-revenue-rises-2025-04-10/?utm_source=chatgpt.com)6.1 ( )|[Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-march-budget-deficit-falls-161-bln-customs-revenue-rises-2025-04-10/?utm_source=chatgpt.com)8.20 ( )|**+2.10**|
   |Apr|[Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/business/us-budget-surplus-rises-23-258-billion-april-customs-revenue-surges-2025-05-12/?utm_source=chatgpt.com)7.0 ( )|[Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/business/us-budget-surplus-rises-23-258-billion-april-customs-revenue-surges-2025-05-12/?utm_source=chatgpt.com)16.0 ( )|**+9.0**|
   |May|[Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-could-collect-300-billion-tariff-revenue-this-year-treasury-chief-says-2025-07-08/?utm_source=chatgpt.com)5.7 § ( )|[Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-could-collect-300-billion-tariff-revenue-this-year-treasury-chief-says-2025-07-08/?utm_source=chatgpt.com)22.8 ( )|**+17.1**|
   |Jun|[Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/business/trumps-tariff-collections-expected-grow-june-us-budget-data-2025-07-11/)6.65 § ( )|[Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/business/trumps-tariff-collections-expected-grow-june-us-budget-data-2025-07-11/)26.6 ( )|**+19.95**|

   Total of 48,740,000,000 increase YOY. With 260 million adults in the country, that comes to $187.46/adult increase thus far.

   I know that more is coming, that line is getting pretty vertical, but tariffs would have to go up another $471 billion (or increase to a delta of about +$78.5 billion per month for every month through EOY, where the current biggest delta is about 20 billion). I suppose I won’t say ‘that could never happen’, I’m just saying, that to get that $2000 number, there will have to be some SUBSTANTIAL changes in what we are bringing in for tariff income. The current TACO strategy won’t get us there.

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