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Ron Filipkowski
@RonFilipkowski
Trumps massive national sales taxes on most goods, imposed unilaterally by executive order, will pay for everything so you will pay no income taxes. Amazing!

spanone
(138,920 posts)
sheshe2
(91,707 posts)To the brim.
DELUSIONAL TOO.
Bernardo de La Paz
(55,210 posts)They are not currently fully applied due to suspensions and exemptions and foulups in paper work.
The $500 million (annually only about $180 billion) is based on pre-tariff trade, not with tariff throttling and not with contractionary economic forces accounted for. US income tax receipts are estimated to be $2,469 billion for 2024. Tariff taxes would not even be one tenth, most favourable case. https://www.statista.com/statistics/217493/revenues-from-income-tax-and-forecast-in-the-us/
Kindleberger chart posted by Paul Krugman
Bernardo de La Paz
(55,210 posts)Real estate is non-portable but title deeds are.
The things the 1% buy are less tariffed than the things the 47% buy.
SheltieLover
(67,294 posts)What a moran.
MagickMuffin
(17,607 posts)How does this work exactly?
Perhaps our hard hitting media will ask him.
Are you paying attention Alex Thompson and Jake Tapper?
Nictuku
(4,184 posts)Hekate
(97,468 posts)
with his happy talk to his cult, they wont be calling for his head just yet.
And of course, after he is gone, what happens to others wont matter to him, so he doesnt give a rip. As Louis XV said: Après moi le déluge.
chouchou
(1,824 posts)Signed: The Easter Snake.
Ilikepurple
(225 posts)Well, Im guessing he has a hand in the self serving and petty revenge policies
Picaro
(1,911 posts)Maybe we should go back on the gold standard too.
That would really fix things.