That was suggested I think by Hawley. He suggested $600 check. The thing is that the tariffs will cost us more than that.
Also giving checks acknowledges that tariffs indeed caused this and giving them based on how one voted will definitively upset at least half of the population.
It was weirder than that. Hawley was pitching income-based check distribution (full amount for annual income below $75,000 then phased to lower amounts up to $200,000 or something like that). Then he stated that this policy of income restrictions would ensure everyone who got a check would be Republican (meaning, no Republican makes more than $200,000 a year) and would prevent Democrats from getting checks (meaning, all Democrats make more than $200,000 a year). It breaks my brain.
They’ll make up for it by mooching off the blue states.
They’re already trying. I saw an article the other day about them planning to give tariff refund checks back to red voters.
That was suggested I think by Hawley. He suggested $600 check. The thing is that the tariffs will cost us more than that.
Also giving checks acknowledges that tariffs indeed caused this and giving them based on how one voted will definitively upset at least half of the population.
So I say: “go ahead”
It was weirder than that. Hawley was pitching income-based check distribution (full amount for annual income below $75,000 then phased to lower amounts up to $200,000 or something like that). Then he stated that this policy of income restrictions would ensure everyone who got a check would be Republican (meaning, no Republican makes more than $200,000 a year) and would prevent Democrats from getting checks (meaning, all Democrats make more than $200,000 a year). It breaks my brain.