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Keeping those tax breaks for the billionaires and ultra wealthy.

Invasion of Nigeria, Venezuela, protecting Trump’s personal real estates in Gaza, propping up dictators….

"Trump's tariffs are raising tens of billions of dollars for the federal government." Shouldn't this say: "Trump's tariffs are simply collecting tens of billions of dollars from Americans and American companies and handing it to the federal government."

The only tax a Republican is willing to back is a regressive one.

Have the day you voted for!

The same federal government he’s robbing

Misspelled 'taxes'

TARIFF - just a another name for taxes on the middle class and poor to benefit the rich …

Tariffs are shitty taxes. They inflict huge economic damage. They should never be used to raise revenue. In fact, they should never be used, period.

This is how they will eliminate income taxes, that is the plan.

Funding SNAP? But US must be cruel!

Supposed to help you said, LOL real journalists should know they were never going to help.

The American consumer is paying that FFS...

We should get every dime of that money but he’ll keep all of it himself

Then why is the deficit increasing? Out of control spending is why..

Taxation without representation

If so, then why can't we afford to feed the poorest of the poor, here in our own country? Why do we have so many homeless? SHOW ME THE MONEY!

100% Agree

Doh 😣 Why did many voters think #Conald would be good for our #economy? Yeah maybe short term but at a higher cost long term. #badDeal It was obvious. I blame voters this time. Lemmings "did their own research" within a small scope of ideology. Free thinkers would actually not limit their input.

And where is that money going? What benefit will Americans see?

In other words: Tariffs are doing exactly what Trump critics said they would do.

Those tens of billions of dollars are coming from American consumers. This is a YUGE tax increase on Americans.

I mean… it’s a tax that impacts those with less the hardest. He’ll probably give the tax revenue to his donors.

So... you're saying the Republicans are raising taxes on the American citizens? Do tell me more.

He's taxing small businesses into oblivion so tech ceo edgelords can experience next gen masturbation with spicy AI. Absolutely unreal that *anybody* voted R yesterday.

And to what end? The national debt has skyrocketed. He thinks public funds belong to him. He is trying to establish a monarchy

Because, and try and follow me here, IT’S A TAX.

Where's the money?

I think we should start referring to Trumps ballroom as “Tariff Hall.”

There are only two people in America who don’t understand this—the bonehead in the Oval and Navarro.

THE MOST IMPORTANT STATEMENT IS THAT THIS IS A DISGUISED TAX ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

Of course they are...but people are stupid and believe everything he says.

And what is the government doing with all the money?

Billions of $ FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE who cannot afford food.

Tariffs are much better than income tax: they are easier to collect, compliance rate is high, and there is nothing to file with IRS. Ideally all taxes on middle class should be replaced with tariffs and sale taxes.

Trump is from the you need to destroy the village to save it school of economics.

And some of the. money will be used to bailout affected groups, like farmers.

They are a stealth tax on consumers and businesses.

Replace the tariffs with a huge wealth tax

That too, the more the merrier!

But isn't it our civic and moral responsibility to line Dear Leader's pockets with our money?

Those funds should be directed to the employees who haven't received a paycheck due the incompetence of our government

The money is on the terrif shelf. Trump alone knows where that shelf is, and he alone has the authority to get the money out from there. bsky.app/profile/atru...

What is he doing with the money?

The small business who brought this lawsuit have the best argument ever. They moved their suppliers then Trump imposed tariffs on that country also. The original idea was to stop trading with China. But, it looks more like Trump is trying to trash the global economy.

Raising billions but no one is tracking the money. My guess is check his boys crypto wallets.

It’s almost as if he doesn’t have a clue about what he’s doing…..again.

Tariffs are extracting what little wealth the middle and lower class citizens have; siphoning it to a government that's ineffective and providing basic services to the people it's supposed to be representing. Fuck tariffs and fuck the idiots who think tariffs are good. Financial warfare is still war

I write for a small town newspaper. Would you be willing to share what municipality you're referring to? In my own small town, people are calling it a referendum, but ours is a whole lot more nuanced than blue wave. I'd love to see an actual referendum in yours.

So Trump has to suspend elections?

Congratulations magaverse, you helped the oligarchs shift the cost burden of government from them onto yourselves. You can always count on a bigot to open his wallet for his cause.

Trump's recession, you had to have...

NPR is failing its readers. The tariffs revenue is being paid by Americans. The millions of dollars Trump's tariffs is raising comes directly from the Americans people; they pay the tariffs.

“This gilded rape room won’t pay for itself”

Trumps tariffs aren't "raising" shit, they're siphoning money away from any American that doesn't actively belong to the ruling wealthy class to fund their own short sighted gain. They're bloated ticks that have gotten fat on our money and sacrifice.

HE'S STEALING THAT MONEY you FUCKS

Since the Federal Government has been gutting jobs and programs for the people, just whose pockets is all that money (which is coming out of Americans pockets)going into?

There is always a twist, twisting the law into a pretzel. Today the argument, “they never said the word “Tarriff”

Where’s the money going? Is it doing anything good?

And where are the billions of dollars going???

It's a brutally regressive sales tax, pass it on.

This headline could’ve led with the bad things the tariffs are doing.

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We also have record breaking deficits and accumulating debt because of Republican tax cuts. The tariffs are hurting the economy, but don't generate nearly enough revenue to offset those GOP tax cuts. Fiscal conservatism is killing us economically.

He increased the deficit this year by 1.9 trillion. A 600 billion tariff offset is only 31% of that, nowhere near a win considering the expected 3.4 trillion more he is on track to incur. And as you noted, this "tariff" decrease in the deficit is paid for by US consumers who are now paying more.

How much are the tariffs costing the federal government by being a drag on the economy?

It’s a tax on us. This is our money they are talking about. It’s going towards the tax cuts for the rich. In other words, we are undergoing a massive transfer of wealth from us to the upper class. This is the story to write about.