This column is kinda anti-Trump BUT it does offer a unique criticism of plans from a Missouri Senator that contract a great deal of conservative history . . .
(Senator) Hawley’s proposal would offer $600 “tariff rebates.” Children are included, meaning that it “would give a family of four $2,400.” The senator says, “Like President Trump proposed, my legislation would allow hard-working Americans to benefit from the wealth that Trump’s tariffs are returning to this country.”
What a stupid statement. That “wealth” Hawley’s referring to belonged to Americans, and the money isn’t “returning” to America because it was already here . . . That’s a form of income redistribution. Everyone pays the tariffs, but higher-income families won’t get the rebates. There was a time when Republicans strongly opposed income redistribution, while progressives like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) strongly supported it. Now a Republican, with Trump’s backing, is proposing income redistribution.
Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .
Are you ready for 'Hawley Bucks'?
Sen. Josh Hawley has proposed the American Worker Rebate Act, which would hand out billions of taxpayer dollars to offset the tariffs imposed by President Trump, but critics argue that the plan is ...
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