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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He ain’t gonna follow through so what does it matter it doesn’t add up ???
I remember having to demonstrate basic arithmetic skills to get a job in a call center. It seems like maybe the president of the U.S. should at least have to take the same test I did
Put every presidential wanna be on stand live broadcast and feed them basic constitution, math, and science questions. Hell every congressional wannabe
This is easy to fix. Just increase tariffs.
“We leave this trivial exercise to the reader” or whatever they write in maths books.
Quick, give this guy a Nobel prize in economics!
He struggles with basic English.
He struggles with basic thought. The old jar of mayonnaise in the back of my fridge is more sentient then Trump.
What’s 2k going to do? It’s a short term fix. How about we have a long term solution?
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?
2+5 =7 4+7 =11
7/11?
Well they paid $2000 extra in tariffs so they’re just getting it back.
And tariffs are what the consumer pays, so we’d only be getting back what we already paid in.
Plot twist: the dumbest wealth-redistribution plan in history.
And dummies will eat it up, thinking he’s paying them with money gained from “other” sources.
Surely less.
Absolutely less.
If that. I’d say my expenses this year have for sure gone up by a total of more than 2k, although I respect that much of that ended up in the pockets of our sacred shareholders and CEOs and their holy quest for quarterly growth, not directly tariffs.
Fuck these checks, stop taxing us so god damn much and making everything so fucking expensive. Let us enjoy life for fucks sake…
But it isn’t just taxes it’s fucking the elite wanting every drop of money they can squeeze from us.
He struggles with basic math in general, not just on this matter. He’s still insisting that he’s going to bring drug prices down 1000%, months after he started saying that. He struggles with basically anything actually.
When he says he’s going to reduce drugs by thousands of percent, I think he looks at the price of drug x in, for example, Germany and sees a price of $10 then he looks at the price in the USA of $160. So the USA price is 1600% of the Germany price.
He claims to reduce them to the Germany price, and then screws up on how percentages work and says he’ll reduce it by 1600%, instead of what he should say, which is reducing it by 94%.
So that’s how I understand the comments he makes. Either way he’s full of shit and won’t actually reduce them at all, but I think I get why he thinks he is correct in stating percentages in the thousands.
Don’t “sane wash” the ravings of a mad man.
I’m not sane washing. I believe it’s how he sees it and now he’s probably been told that’s not how it works, he continues to use this method as a way to make the number bigger. So it crosses from idiocy to deliberate deception. IMO
You’re reaching a lot in your “theory” trying to attribute logic (however few of it) to the ramblings of a delusional, unintelligent and dementia riddled old man. I do not believe for a second that there’s any logic other than “big number make me feel good”.
And the deception part would require him to understand and accept that he was wrong, which he’s shown to be completely unable to do numerous times.
Well maybe I am, but I also think there is a tendancy to dismiss a lot of trump’s behaviour as delusional, or dumb when I see it as intentional malice with moments of dementia woven in.
I do think he is not very bright, but not so dumb as many want to believe. It feels good to think of him as dumb, but the fact of the matter is he convinced tens of millions of people to vote for him. He has steam rollered the USA and imposed his will. He is clever enough to have understood his to manipulate the public masterfully up to his second election, despite being a convicted felon by that point. To say he is stupid and somehow lucked his way into all of that is not impossible but improbable. I think his issue now is that he underestimated how the public would respond as he got positive reinforcement for many years even when doing harmful things because of his blind support from MAGA. He underestimated how much they would put up with.
It is entirely possible that he pulled the number out of the air but I don’t think that’s how he works. Some of what he says is rooted in a truth that he then distorts and exaggerates to serve him, which is why I think the number comes from his deliberate misunderstanding than from nowhere.
The deception doesn’t require him to accept he was wrong. It requires mental gymnastics. Something he has proven to be an Olympic gold medalist at.
Just to be clear I am not defending him I am advising caution. Writing him off as stupid means you are in some way excusing his actions as being accidental and leads to the “of its just trump being trump” rhetoric that has let him get away with so much. He is a dangerous, dangerous man. I can’t decide if he believes the things he says or simply wants you to believe the things he says. I lean towards the latter.
As I wrote this I am reminded of Boris Johnson who is someone who spent a great deal of time convincing the UK public he was a harmless, likeable idiot. He was not. He was an intelligent, deceptive man who wore his public image like a mask to hide his nefarious intent. Boris is not trump of course, but I see Boris as a cautionary tale and it makes me view Trump differently than I perhaps would if Boris had not existed.
Fully accept I may be wrong about all of this, but just want to share my opinion.
The man who means what he says always needs interpretation.
he looks at
well I think you lost me there. I doubt he looks at fucking anything
Ah, that makes sense. He’s definitely an idiot for not knowing how it works and he has to know that people are laughing at him and he just keeps repeating the same stupidity.
It’s likely one part of a statistic he heard somewhere. The only part that registered was the number.
“Here ya go, simpletons. Here’s a fraction of your own money back. I’m the greatest person to have ever drawn breath, praise me for my stable genius.”
I agree, but that fraction is 3/2 🤣
And it’ll work like a charm for all the MAGAts.
Trump 79, struggles to stay alive…
ngl but this atleast is some kind of wealth redisturbution, despite how stupid it all is.
rather this than handing it straight up to the billionairs directly, like usually
Billionaires only getting $300 billion to share amongst them? Don’t make me laugh. They don’t need pocket change. Come back to me when you are distributing $300 billion PER billionaire.
But it well all end up in their pockets anyway.
“The $2,000 dividend could come in lots of forms, in lots of ways,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on ABC News on Sunday.
“It could be just the tax decreases that we are seeing on the president’s agenda. You know, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security,” the Treasury Secretary added.
The only time Social Security income is taxed, is if you’re pulling in investment money or a significant “second job”…
No one who needs the 2k is paying tax on social security…
And cutting the tax on it only helps the wealthy
“In many ways” signals to me that he’s just going to say people have been paid but nobody is actually getting anything.
Of course, his base will lap his bullshit up and praise how generous and honest he is.
It means he knows nothing and there’s no actual plan. Like always, Trump is just gonna Trump and it’s up to his circle of interpretivite dementia experts and pill grifters as to what he actually means.
Yeah, it means we can all keep hoping to be trickled on at some point. They are only giving money to those of us that qualify as something higher than “consumer” on their caste list.
Wow, someone else maths!
From another thread:
So far, there has been $200B collected in tariffs as of September. Some estimates are saying $300B by end of year.
https://www.crfb.org/blogs/tariff-revenue-soars-fy-2025-amid-legal-uncertainty
The current estimated US population is 340 million.
https://www.census.gov/popclock/
Take off 10% for “the wealthy”, that leaves 306,000,000.
I can’t imagine Trump giving $2,000 to kids, so knock off anyone under 18, that’s another 73 million off the list.
So round about 233,000,000 people getting $2,000 checks?
$466 billion. Oops. Hey Donnie, you’re short somewhere between $166 and $266 billion.
So how much COULD people get?
$200B / 233M = $858.37
$300B / 233M = $1,287.55Not awful, until you realize that’s how much these taxes soaked you for in the first place. 😉
When articles mention X, they immediately follow up that it used to be called Twitter. I hope articles start dropping his age every time they mention Trump.
“Trump, 79, did a thing today. Trump, who was born when most people thought cigarettes were healthy, …”
