If the economy is as great as Trump says it is, why is he talking about sending everyone $2,000? From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
President Trump – perhaps cluing in to the implications of the recent blowout elections in Virginia and New York and New Jersey – has dangled (again) the prospect of $2,000 checks for every American as their rebate – so to speak – for all the taxes he has cost them.
He does not, of course, refer to these taxes as taxes. He calls them “tariffs” – and counts on the rubes not comprehending that changing terms does not change facts. He also counts on them not understanding what “free” things cost.
One of the reasons a small bag of groceries that cost $30 before the “pandemic” now costs $60 is not because of the “pandemic” but because of the “stimulus” checks Trump showered on the people to get their minds off of what the “pandemic” cost them. He threw people who’d lost their jobs or businesses a few bills, in the manner of a guy just done with a hooker except we didn’t agree to provide such services.
What do you suppose is likely to happen when – if – Trump causes the Treasury Department’s printing presses to kick into overdrive again and sends out $2,000 checks to 320 million Americans (or even half that many)? They’d better hurry to spend it – because very shortly, that $2k may not buy what $100 buys right now. That is the effect of pumping more fake money into the system. Remember, the tax/tariff money Trump brays about is already spent on such things as “aid” to Israel and Ukraine – or committed to be spent on such things. Does anyone remember that the federal government is in debt to the tune of something like $37 trillion dollars? There is nothing to hand out except paper that’s as fake as Trump’s tan.
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