Why rebate cheques if tariffs are paid by countries?????
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by Miserable-Lizard
Why rebate cheques if tariffs are paid by countries?????
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by Miserable-Lizard
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Trump said it himself the higher the tariffs the rich America is. Rebate cheques should be canceled, since tariffs make the working class richer according to Maga!
You make them pay tariffs just to hand out rebate checks? Why not skip the circus and shove the tariffs up your ass to begin with?
What is this some puzzle for the retarded? If we tax people and then return a bit of money to people and claim it comes from tariffs then who paid for the tariffs? Huh? Huh? You can’t tell me can you? So it must be foreign countries right?
Between this and what the EPA announced today, we are truly living in the dumbest of times.
That’s like 1-2 weeks of childcare covered for the year? Still not worth having children in the US. That’s a big no dawg.
Sheesh, what kind of conservative Republican is Josh Hawley? Genuine hardcore conservative Republicans, going back to the 1870’s, at least, would rather suffer daily beatings than be a party to the federal government giving money to American families and individuals in need.
He must be *really* scared of getting unelected next year.
It’s not happening, this is just a headline to manipulate the masses. He needs the tariffs to pay for his bill, that requires the consumer to pay for them. What sense would it make to essentially pay back the money we already paid???
They have collected $100B in tariffs so far regardless of who has paid for them. Returning that to Americans (who need it) is better than handing out checks that were paid with debt and printing from the Fed like we did during the pandemic (under both Trump and Biden). That is worse because it causes inflation.
That is a pittance compared to the damage being done to the average American by Republican tax plans.
How’s about they rebate $4T divided by all adults like they handed out rebates to the top 0.1%?
In 2020 there were 258M adults in the US, which would equate roughly to $15,500 per adult.
Hawley’s bill would cost $141 billion….which is ~50% of the estimated tariff revenue for the year. So we did all this just to hike a tax on citizens, take half the money, and redistribute it to back to them? This is like the worlds dumbest UBI plan.
No thanks just stop the god damn trump bills.
Trying to appease people by giving them $600 but they will easily loose over $1,000-2000 when tariff costs get fully passed height of idiocy
Where have we heard of this before?? 🤔
Circular economy. Gotta love it.
Let’s take away their assistance programs. Impose tariffs on everything and anything. Then spend federal dollars on a one time cash payout the equivalent of what Jeff bezos makes in less than a half hour.
**Trump**: They will pay the tariffs!
**MAGAland**: YEAHHHH!!!!! WINNING!!!!
**Reality**: Americans will pay the tariffs.
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**Hawley**: We will share the tariff bounty with Americans!
**MAGAland**: YEAHHHH!!!!! MOAR WINNING!!!!
**Reality**: It’s a partial rebate to the consumption tax / tariff on Americans purchasing goods that subsidizes tax cuts for the rich.
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We all are getting poorer, but they keep thinking they are “winning”.
So, Republicans are going to raise American families costs ~ $4,000 per year (tariffs and taxes) but ole Joggin’ Josh wants to refund them $600 per head.
More MAGA 3-card Monte. And, Josh gets to make the grand gesture that he is actually doing something even though he knows the proposal will never make it through Congress.
What a guy!!
Prediction: it will be $2000 right before midterms.
This would definitely raise inflation almost immediately
Cut taxes.
Increase government spending.
Send stimulus checks.
Beg for lower interest rates.
Why are we doing the fail safes for a recession if the economy is booming under Taco?
Meanwhile use Venmo to send payments for the debt. Wild times
Josh Hawley is like… Come get your, stop talking about Epstein, Bribes. Get your $600 dollar, talk about anything but the Pedo Presidents, bribes right this way folks!
The rebates have nothing to do with tariffs. The rebates would be to offset inflation.
2 totally different things that have absolutely nothing to do with each other at all even a little bit.
Because the gov’t is taking in more money than it spends. It is a rebate of your income taxes. NBC news phrased it that way deliberately.
Be more of bot by writing cheques and not checks.
is this how inbred mentally challenged americans finally come to a non communist non socialist non democratic version of UBI?! hahaha the full circle cognitive disonance never fails to amaze me.
My Trump buddies would say it’s from all that fraud they found and regurgitate a couple facebook “news” headlines. I mean, I don’t believe it for shit but I can’t prove they didn’t find waste and there’s no use trying to convince them otherwise so…
Idiot Economics brought to you by the GOP.
Buying votes. Big checks signed by the orange menace himself. They’ve done this before.
This doesn’t help the thousands of small businesses being driven into ruin by tariffs. It’s just an empty promise, it will never happen.
Other than postering for a 2028 run – you will have to a sucker to believe this has a chance to pass
wow, $600 whole dollars? now me thinks corruption good for me!! yay monies.
I thought The Heritage Foundation was against Universal Basic Income.
Member when Obama sent everyone $600?
Is this a universal basic income? Or is this literally a one time payment? Because one of those is a meaningful change, 600$ one time is going to do very little for anyone.
lol crank up inflation make us spend 3000 more a year and give us 600!dollars? Enjoy your week of groceries
They are trying to pull what companies did the first year of the first Trump tax break. They gave front line a bonus year one then everybody forgot about it so they stopped paying a bonus to the front line workers, but still got the tax break year 2 and beyond.
Now these dipshits collect taxes from the American people just to give a little back so you will forget about it in a few months. The US is gullible enough to fall for it.
Wtf, its their money to begin with. It’s like a tariff refund
Many of us pay more than $600. a year in tariffs.
It was the leverage we had the capacity to exert. The goal was opening their markets. In the 2010s China kicked our tech out of their country by saying we’d basically have to give them access to all our IP if we wanted to stay, so we left. Uber, Facebook, Youtube, Azure, Amazon, and Google arent used in China. Thats a market we arent profiting from. Like 1/3 of our growth in the last 3 years came from tech. Its fueling our economy. We want their market. This was always mostly about China. They want our hardware, but we want them using our services. The thing that really complicated this for Trump was Xi losing power. He didnt expect that and its made it much harder to negotiate with them. Im not supporting or defending anything, Im just saying it cant all be read at face value and wasnt entirely devoid of sense. Like I dont know if it was good sense, but he thought it was strategic.
If he came out and said this is only about EU regulation and CCP influence in China they would have gone around it. China would have exported through other countries and EU would have kept acting hypocritically superior with trade. Just talking about trade. But by tariffing everyone including the penguins, the wall was a wall and not a traffic cone. It was never about countries like Britian, and we gave them a public deal signing because their finances are hilariously shit and were facing another weekly crisis. It was kinda our fault but like, we fixed it. lol. its a circus. an amusing circus
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