President Donald Trump on Sunday claimed that a “dividend of at least $2000 a person” will be paid to all Americans except for “high-income people,” saying the country is now wealthy as a result of his tariff policies.

“People that are against Tariffs are FOOLS! We are now the Richest, Most Respected Country In the World, With Almost No Inflation, and A Record Stock Market Price. 401k’s are Highest EVER,” the president wrote.

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    will be paid to all Americans except for “high-income people,”

    The only reason anyone ever does means testing…

    Is to make people who dont get something, pissed off at the rest. Too many people are uniting against the wealthy, they need to get the bottom 99% fighting again.

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    Trump suggesting any sort of UBI was not on my bingo card for this year. You just know there’s going to be some sort of catch.

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    I like redistributing wealth, no complaints here, but as a response to Trump’s claims of a wealth government I offer a reminder to everyone here that Trump decreased federal income and increased the 5 year deficit by about 7 Trillion by the lowest estimates. The US Government does not have the money to do this.

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      What do I care? It’s all funny money anyway.

      Not that Donnie Dipshit is actually going to deliver. But I’m tried of hearing about the deficit whenever “money for plebs” is on the table. Then Israel or Argentina gets $40B no questions asked. Nobody seems to bat an eye.

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        You paid him more than his bullshit 2k anyway. Weren’t the earliest estimates like 3.5k annual per household? Not to mention, you can’t buy my complacency on dismantling of the economy. Fuck Trump. I’d rather eat roaches than take his stimulus.

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    The tariffs are just a tax on -us- in the first place, easily exceeding $2k; so this isn’t some gift, it’s a partial return on a tax that shouldn’t exist in the first place.

    Like, this is the school bully stealing your lunch money, then throwing the metal change back at you.

    Orange shit stain owes us a LOT more than $2k.

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    Meanwhile he’s preventing SNAP benefits that average less than $200 per household (not even per person). And that have already been approved and allocated by Congress, he’s just preventing it from being distributed.

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    8 months ago

    so the new magat plan is to try to buy the midterms using cash borrowed from our great-grandkids after they ‘save’ the country from the ‘democrat shutdown’?

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    FEEDING Starving children is SOCIALISM! Giving Every American $2000 is GOOD CAPITALISTIC POLICY!

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      If there are any anti-maga republicans in the future reading this, it’s an excellent opportunity to run a campaign on MAGA incompetence giving out cash to illegals (obviously false but red tie voters won’t know that).