How the $2,000 Tariff Dividend Checks Would Work
The administration has offered few operational details about how the tariff rebate program would be structured. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the White House is still exploring potential income eligibility limits.
Bessent indicated that one proposal under discussion would target families earning less than $100,000 per year, although he emphasized that no decision has been made and the plan remains under review.
Analysts estimate that limiting payments to households under that income level would cost approximately $300 billion, according to the Tax Foundation. If distributed more broadly, the amount could significantly exceed available tariff revenues.
During the COVID-era relief bills, a proposal to offer $2,000 stimulus checks was estimated to cost around $464 billion, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
I never received the 2,000 but I sure could use it I’m 80 and there is no money for food and house repairs.
You all realize, and yes I am both a senior citizen and a registered VOTING republican, that this is a pipe dream from an administration who consistently lie and has lied to the american people. It amazes me that character, honesty, and the human equation no longer matter in the consciousness of our nation. Racial hatred, isolation, lack of concern for the down-trodden and disinfranchised and fear, appear to be the driving force of this current administration and now the country. Remember it is the head not the tail that leads. Lack of civil discourse, vulgarity, profanity, sexual scandal, no accoutability, law makers practicing lawlessness while at the same time enforcing it on the average citizen, has made this nation the laughing stock of the free world. A little leavens the whole lump. We do not have a money problem in america, we have a moral problem that can only be remedied by the liberating gospel of Jesus Christ. Psalm 9:20, “Put them in fear O LORD, let the nations know that they are but men,” and 9:17, “The wicked will return to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.” Yes, the stimulus may help many, but at what overall cost. One’s hope should not be money or in an administration wholly, but in the shed blood, the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. John 3:16, you know the verse. Coupled with Romans 5:8 says, “God demonstrated His love for us that while we were sinners, Christ died for us.” If you have never done so, turn to Jesus today.
You all realize, and yes I am both a senior citizen and a registered VOTING republican, that this is a pipe dream from an administration who consistently lie and has lied to the american people. It amazes me that character, honesty, and the human equation no longer matter in the consciousness of our nation. Racial hatred, isolation, lack of concern for the down-trodden and disinfranchised and fear, appear to be the driving force of this current administration and now the country. Remember it is the head not the tail that leads. Lack of civil discourse, vulgarity, profanity, sexual scandal, no accoutability, law makers practicing lawlessness while at the same time enforcing it on the average citizen, has made this nation the laughing stock of the free world. A little leavens the whole lump. We do not have a money problem in america, we have a moral problem that can only be remedied by the liberating gospel of Jesus Christ. Psalm 9:20, “Put them in fear O LORD, let the nation know that they are but men,” and 9:17, “The wicked will return to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.” Yes, the stimulus may help many, but at what overall cost. One’s hope should not be money or in an administration wholly, but in the shed blood, the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. John 3:16, you know the verse. Coupled with Romans 5:8 says, “God demonstrated His love for us that while we were sinners, Christ died for us.” If you have never done so, turn to Jesus today.
Correction I think you mean joke:)
It would be nice if it was true and we didn’t have to pay it back with interest and then have it hike the price of everything even higher than what it is now, pretty soon everyone will be living on the street.