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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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.