• MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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    This of course, coming from the guy who’s been constantly like “Plz buy muh dropshipped garbage at 60000% markup so we’s can own teh libz.”

    Yeah, that guy, who just destroyed our economy after starting a war he can’t even back out of…

    …Who can’t even manage the logistics to feed his own sailors.

    …is gonna pay people…$5000 each.

    …Like people can be stupid but you’d have to be stoopid stupid…

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    It would be cheaper to give us free healthcare, improve the healthcare system, cover medications, and develop a UBI/social security for all.

    But that might help blue states, so nah.

    Btw, here’s more billions to go blow up some middle eastern people.

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    Let’s do the basic math here: 270 million adults × $5,000 = $1.35 trillion. Where is this money coming from? He promised us $2,000 tariff checks and those never happened. Now he’s blatantly trying to buy votes right before the midterms with taxpayer money we don’t have. Even if this wasn’t an empty promise, dropping $1.3T directly into the economy while inflation and gas prices are already high from the Middle East conflict would completely trash the dollar

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    They’ve given up assuming they can win out just racism so they’ve move onto straight promises of bribes. Of course, this is a group who never paid out the last promises of bribes so it’s all lies. Too bad all too many voters will go back to fooled again.

    PT Barnum was right.

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    Man. If only we had someone in the government willing to investigate election fraud. You know, like literally offering to buy the vote of every eligible adult in the country.

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    Let’s do the basic math here: 270 million adults × $5,000 = $1.35 trillion. Where is this money coming from? He promised us $2,000 tariff checks and those never happened. Now he’s blatantly trying to buy votes right before the midterms with taxpayer money we don’t have. Even if this wasn’t an empty promise, dropping $1.3T directly into the economy while inflation and gas prices are already high from the Middle East conflict would completely trash the dollar

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    President Donald Trump has promised a $5,000 payment to every adult U.S. citizen if Republicans retain control of both chambers of Congress in the November midterm elections, a proposal that could cost the federal government about $1.3 trillion.

    Just to be clear, the $1.3 trillion won’t come from the payouts, as they obviously won’t actually happen. It’ll come from Congress being run by Republicans.

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    I think I found the loophole:

    The president didn’t reveal any other details, other than to add, “The only caveat I have is ​that the dividend that we’re making must be spent in the ‌United States of America.”

    The payments (if they happen at all) will be issued in the form of a Trump Gift Card only redeemable at cooperating retailers. There will only be a few cooperating retailers, all of them controlled by Trump and his allies. It’s just another money grab scheme.