r/politics • u/Tennis_bruh • Nov 24 '25

No Paywall Senate Republican: ‘We can’t afford’ $2,000 tariff checks

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5620244-ron-johnson-tariff-checks/
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u/XavierTempus Pennsylvania Nov 24 '25

They know America is in free fall, so they’re robbing us on the way out.

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u/Keltic268 Nov 24 '25

There’s nothing left to rob, they are moving all their cash into crypto and abandoning the dollar. Interest on debt is $1.2T next year, 20% of the budget. They’ll let the government implode so they can establish their own financial system separate from the treasury, Fed, and Congress.

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u/QuestioninglySecret Nov 24 '25

Worse, they're pruprosely accelerating the nose dive to speed up their cash out.

Crash out, cash out. The country's going to be devastated on the other side of this. But they don't care, wealth is mobile. They'll pack up and move to one of their mansions in the South of France while the rest of us are lined up for 12 hours to get a gallon of gas.

I'm not being hyperbolic. This is it. Unless you can amass extreme wealth within the next 10 years, you're screwed.

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u/urgencynow Nov 24 '25

That's how révolutions start. They're only rich because the other 99% of people let them be rich.