It’s his imagination and we’re just lucky to be living in it.

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by Conscious-Quarter423

7 comments

  1. It’s not revenue from other countries. It’s us, the American people.

  2. Well, the emperor does have some pretty fancy clothes these days

  3. And deporting 40 million immigrants is going to help the economy how

  5. What makes this whole situation so ridiculous is how confidently the claim is thrown around. Eight trillion in tariff revenue sounds like a number designed to impress people who will never check the math. The actual revenue is one hundred fifteen billion, which is not pocket change, but compared to what is being advertised it is a speck. That is like promising you caught a whale and then showing up with a goldfish. The pie chart drives the point home because the slice representing the real number is barely visible next to the imagined one. It almost looks like satire, except it is being treated as serious policy talk. What makes it more surreal is that the costs are real, people pay higher prices on imported goods, supply chains are distorted, inflation gets nudged upward, but the supposed reward is a fantasy.

    And then when critics point out the gap, it gets reframed as strength or negotiation leverage, instead of an outright exaggeration. That is how political theater works, the narrative takes over while the data sits quietly ignored in the background. The result is a debate where numbers are decoration instead of substance, and it leaves everyone else shaking their head wondering how long we are expected to play along with the show.

  6. So is it one of those voodoo economic tricks where they claim $8 trillion but it’s actually expected revenue under perfect conditions over a 40 year span?

  7. The initial idea of abolishing income tax amd having tariffs cover the gap instead is actually great, and has in fact worked well before income tax was even invented. But I’m really not sure what the game plan really is for the current state of things? How are they expecting to put the genie back in the bottle?

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