re: Trump reiterated his $5K Midterm Victory Check promise Saturday night at his Ohio Rally

So now you and your alt want checks?

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He has promised checks over and over and failed to deliver on those promises over and over. This will be just another example.

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How many wicked drones are you planning to buy with your stimmy?

And you can’t talk on a forum without multiple accounts to defend yourself.

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At least 5 I think. Gots to spend that gubment cheese on trash like everyone else

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Your #1 fanboy can probably tell you the best ones on the market.

TRUMP HANDOUT'S R US!

By David Harsanyi

It was probably inevitable that the right’s economic populism would degenerate into promises of more government checks. Last week, the Trump administration floated the idea of redirecting federal child-care aid so low-income married stay-at-home parents could get a $9,000 subsidy per child for day care. The policy, reportedly hatched by Vice President JD Vance, would use the Department of Health and Human Services’ Child Care and Development Fund, originally created in the 1990s for low-income single parents.

Vance’s defenders stress that the program merely redirects “existing subsidies” and wouldn’t add to the debt. The notion that Vance was fiscally responsible was quickly shattered later in the week when he defended President Donald Trump’s promise to hand every adult a $5,000 “dividend” check, should Republicans hold on to Congress. “We’re taking in an extraordinary amount of revenue,” Vance told Fox News’ Bret Baier. “What the president is saying is, ‘If you keep it going, if you keep us in power and allow us to continue to do these things, then you’re going to share in some of the benefit of this incredible wealth that we are creating in the United States of America.’”

None of this is true. Import taxes on Americans don’t create any wealth — they extract it. The administration collected roughly $300 billion from American consumers through tariffs last year. The “revenue” was supposedly going to be used to pay down the debt.


Handing out roughly $1.3 trillion to voters, while running an existing $2 trillion deficit, isn’t a “dividend” payment as much as a brazen socialistic redistribution stunt that would add $1.5 trillion to the deficit. That is three hundred million Americans times 5,000 each.

Vance’s fans argue that welfare programs will never be unwound, so they might as well be used for socially conservative goals.

Yet once you normalize arguments in favor of dependency, politics devolves into an arms race in who can send voters bigger checks.


Vance’s defenders present themselves as champions of stay-at-home mothers and his critics as anti-family, Chamber of Commerce types, who want to push mothers into the workforce to lift the GDP and destroy nuclear families. That’s not the choice. The preexisting program, the CCDF, funds day cares so that already poor single mothers, some of whom have been abandoned or widowed, can go to work and hopefully become self-sufficient. The program was meant to wean people off dependency.

Since the Great Society was hatched, conservatives have argued that welfare throws people into a corrosive generational spiral. Now, you can argue that the CCDF failed at its intended goal, but Vance’s plan hooks an entire new group, low-income married mothers, on government funding and incentivizes breadwinners to stay poor enough not to lose the subsidy.


Every welfare program that has ever existed is prone to grow bigger. There are many more poor married couples with children than single mothers. The eligibility pool will be far larger. The demand will be far greater. Some fans of the program are already arguing to expand it. The funding for safety-net programs is diverted from middle-class families, who don’t always have the luxury of a spouse staying home with the children, either.

At some point, they’ll say, “What about us?” What will populists tell them?

And, judging from the wide range of progressive leftist economics embraced by Vance and other economic statists, this might well be the goal. In essence, the argument is that the welfare state can do good things if only it were deployed for the right reasons by the right people. There is little evidence for this, either. Countries such as Hungary have spent chunks of their GDP enticing people to form families, including with tax exemptions, cash handouts to mothers and subsidized loans. This wasn’t even aimed at the poor, but at everyone. After a small initial bump in the replacement rate, Hungary’s fell to an all-time low.

Vance’s central economic goal is to move the Republican Party away from Reaganism and toward right-progressivism. Modern Republicans are increasingly embracing economic demagoguery and doomerism.

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Well, he is a socialist.

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Why are people downvoting the thread?

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Because alt.

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monkeys fly out of my arse on a daily basis.

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You can spend your vote bribe check on on a doctor visit

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Flying Illini

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