Good news for Americans: Trump is giving $600 rebate to everybody

[ThreeCardMonte]

21 hours ago, jerrymahoney said:

According to the bill introduced by Senator Hawley:

 

(b) STATEMENT OF POLICY.—It is the policy of the
7 United States to use revenue raised from tariffs applied
8 on foreign imports to provide relief for working people
9 through immediate tax rebates.

 

 

No definition in the bill as to what constitutes "working people".

 
 

Are you a USC?  If you were you would know it’s called a W-2 or the equivalent.

 

Noted on their tax returns.

[Bday Prang]

21 minutes ago, cdemundo said:

Joe Biden also became the American President,

Was that a superior achievement?

Do you have to establish your superior achievements before you criticize Biden?

Your insulting  criticism of Trump was totally baseless, and actually quite childish 

[cjinchiangrai]

12 hours ago, TroubleandGrumpy said:

No you numpty - they cancel the Contract if the seller refuses to eat most of the extra costs, because the price will then be too high for the consumers. Likewise, could also they take a bit of a hit and lose some margin for the same reason. Economics, Trade and Business.  You should stick to gender studies. 

Then they will cancel the contracts and renegotiate a new higher price to be passed on. There are no alternative sources.

[jerrymahoney]

2 hours ago, ThreeCardMonte said:

 
 

Are you a USC?  If you were you would know it’s called a W-2 or the equivalent.

 

Noted on their tax returns.

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., on Monday introduced a bill to send tariff rebate checks to American families, similar to the stimulus checks sent during the Covid-19 pandemic.

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/29/tariff-rebate-check-trump.html

 

-- even persons who were not working but received social security received the Covid-19 checks.

 

However, in reading further:

 

‘‘(d) ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUAL.—For purposes of this section, the term ‘eligible individual’ means any individual other than— ‘‘(1) any nonresident alien individual, (2 & 3)

[ThreeCardMonte]

40 minutes ago, jerrymahoney said:

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., on Monday introduced a bill to send tariff rebate checks to American families, similar to the stimulus checks sent during the Covid-19 pandemic.

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/29/tariff-rebate-check-trump.html

 

-- even persons who were not working but received social security received the Covid-19 checks.

 

However, in reading further:

 

‘‘(d) ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUAL.—For purposes of this section, the term ‘eligible individual’ means any individual other than— ‘‘(1) any nonresident alien individual, (2 & 3)

Why the deflection?

 

Direct answers is asking too much?

 

Some of the whiners won’t be happy.

[jerrymahoney]

For the purposes of the proposed rebate under the 'eligible persons' one would not have to have a W-2.

[Felton Jarvis]

When I see it in my bank account, I'll bleive it.

[FritsSikkink]

On 7/30/2025 at 8:55 AM, Bday Prang said:

He could invent a cure for cancer and end world poverty

He can't though.

[Bday Prang]

5 minutes ago, FritsSikkink said:

He can't though.

of course he can't, he's not a doctor, but you know exactly what I meant, or are you really so stupid

[thesetat]

21 hours ago, Knight Rider said:

But one can sue Walmart for selling substandard toys resulting in the death of a child. 

So easy to do.. Does not need to be death either. Simple slip and fall inside their store when the floor is wet will suffice

[Bday Prang]

On 7/30/2025 at 9:22 AM, save the frogs said:

 

Exactly, because he would still be a rapist. 

 

personally I would have no issues if a rapist cured my cancer

[FritsSikkink]

24 minutes ago, Bday Prang said:

personally I would have no issues if a rapist cured my cancer

Maybe he can start clarifying this: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/forensics-expert-analysis-of-jeffrey-epstein-jail-video-contradicts-government-s-claims/vi-AA1JwT6R?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=bf57860f598449cb9ada3500e1ee0c0d&ei=41

[BLMFem]

49 minutes ago, Bday Prang said:

personally I would have no issues if a rapist cured my cancer

What if it was your rapist?

[GroveHillWanderer]

On 7/30/2025 at 7:07 AM, Knight Rider said:

CNBC is reporting new legislation has been introduced to give $600 rebate to all American Tax filers. 

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/29/tariff-rebate-check-trump.html

 

My guess is this goes the same way as the proposed $5,000 dividend check for Americans mentioned in that article, that was going to be funded from the 'savings' made by DOGE. 

[jerrymahoney]

1 hour ago, FritsSikkink said:

Maybe he can start clarifying this: 

REDUX:

Not to minimize the CBS report as to contradictions and inconsistencies in the federal report but CBS does state:

 

The review doesn't refute the conclusion that Epstein died by suicide.

[GroveHillWanderer]

On 7/30/2025 at 6:12 PM, TroubleandGrumpy said:

Unlike the woke experts in the media saying the costs are all 100% passed on to the consumer, that is absolutely totally a false statement. 

Not a single economist or financial analyst of any stripe is saying that. They are all saying (totally accurately) that the tariff has to be paid by the importer or company receiving the goods when they arrive at their destination. They then have the choice of either absorbing the costs themselves, or passing then on to the consumer.

 

All of the articles I've read, say that in that situation, it's virtually inevitable that customers will end up paying more for some imported products.

 

In fact, as the article below shows, some companies have already said that they will increase the prices they charge consumers. Others say that they will try not to increase costs for now, but may have to do so later and in the meantime, it will cost their companies hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars.

 

What companies have said so far about how Trump tariffs will affect prices

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-tariffs-companies-prices-b2709727.html

 

Companies from Stanley Black & Decker to Conagra are saying tariffs will cost them hundreds of millions

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/30/stanley-black-decker-conagra-trump-tariffs-cost-increases.html

[Bday Prang]

1 hour ago, BLMFem said:

What if it was your rapist?

All good if my cancer was cured,   nobody would rape me looking as I do after Chemo/ Radio therapy and major surgery   anymore pathetic questions,?  good  now do one.

  You really are a nasty piece of work, typical leftist

[Bday Prang]

2 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

Maybe he can start clarifying this: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/forensics-expert-analysis-of-jeffrey-epstein-jail-video-contradicts-government-s-claims/vi-AA1JwT6R?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=bf57860f598449cb9ada3500e1ee0c0d&ei=41

nothing to do with my comment

[ericbj]

On 7/30/2025 at 8:30 AM, Gsxrnz said:

Not that I'm a US taxpayer, but giving the same amount to all taxpayers is a very socialist policy and should please the Left.  If Trump gave the refund based on the taxpayers actual contribution, the outcome would be vastly different. 

 

From Who Pays Federal Income Taxes? Latest Federal Income Tax Data

• The top 50 percent of all taxpayers paid 97.7 percent of all federal individual income taxes, while the bottom 50 percent paid the remaining 2.3 percent.

 

To each according to his ability.

I do not think it is the proportions that are the problem, but rather the mAcroscopic overall budget expenditure.  Due to money squandered left and right.

 

There is a need to cut the coat according to the cloth available.  That way the wealthy can stay wealthy and the poor can be eased out of poverty.

 

Where governments create conflict, both global and local, they do so because they are prodded into it by big rentier-capitalist interests.  The country, and everyone else, including the relatively well off, suffer.

 

Overall returns on investment in the US 'defense' [armaments] sector are said to have almost equalled 1,000% over the course of the Afghan War.

Did the expenditure of bombs, projectiles, ammunition, and all the rest add to the wealth of the United States and its people?
No, of course not.  It was a redistribution of wealth from working people of all categories to big-time manipulative speculators.  A consortium of loose, informal pressure-groups of overlapping interests, often referred to as the Deep State.

Statistics showing the increase in wealth of the richest citizens following each successive crisis is quite convincing proof of this phenomenon.

 

Footnote:
When a government creates funny-money out of thin air because its income is insufficient to meet its expenditure, the population may be made to pay in two inter-related ways:

1.  A tax called "inflation".  This is not a revaluation of goods and services but rather a devaluation of the currency, due to an excess of supply.

2.  A debt whose repayment is kicked down the road, perhaps to be met by a future generation.
This can be avoided if inflation is high enough that debts can be repaid in a much devalued currency, in effect legally defrauding the creditors.
A default in all but name.

 

[ericthai]

On 7/29/2025 at 9:22 PM, save the frogs said:

 

Exactly, because he would still be a rapist. 

 

Who did he rape…  When was this conviction of rape?

[bendejo]

Maybe the payout will require you to sign an oath stating that in return for the payment you agree to never mention Jeffrey Epstein ever again.

 

[ThailandRyan]

Wait is it April 1st already........

[Knight Rider]

9 hours ago, ericbj said:

A debt whose repayment is kicked down the road, perhaps to be met by a future generation.

I don't care about future generation. I only care about my generation. 

[KhunLA]

12 minutes ago, Knight Rider said:

I don't care about future generation. I only care about my generation. 

I don't care about any generation, just care about me 😎

[Zack61]

What about to foreign visitors???

[Zack61]

20 hours ago, Bday Prang said:

Your insulting  criticism of Trump was totally baseless, and actually quite childish 

Nevertheless, true. 

[Jim Blue]

On 7/30/2025 at 8:52 AM, ColeBOzbourne said:

Who is Shirley? 

I think he means Dorothy !

[FritsSikkink]

14 hours ago, jerrymahoney said:

The review doesn't refute the conclusion that Epstein died by suicide.

Because you need proof for that, but it does show that the government lied.

[save the frogs]

17 hours ago, ericthai said:

Who did he rape…  When was this conviction of rape?

 

I was just joking.

I don't know who he raped. 

Bunch of people keep repeating it on here. 

 

[Bday Prang]

2 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

 

I was just joking.

I don't know who he raped. 

Bunch of people keep repeating it on here. 

 

Like most of the rubbish about Trump.     Virtue signalling lefty idiots every one of them