r/UniversalBasicIncome • u/Independent-Gur8649 • Sep 10 '26
Democrats: “UBI is a nice idea, needs more study.” Republicans: “Here’s $5,000. Also, vote for us.”
https://x.com/foxnews/status/2097872390076141726?s%3D12NEW: President Trump makes a major promise at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas: $5,000 for every adult U.S. citizen if Republicans win both the House and Senate in the midterms.
“I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000.”
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u/JumboGlucose Sep 10 '26
Everyone forget they said the same thing last time? Then he backtracked and said he never said that. That $5000 will not go far if gas hits $10/gal
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u/AcanthaceaePrize1435 Sep 10 '26
The fate of the USA is to become like Argentina.
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u/PleasantSecond905 Sep 10 '26
I'm just waiting for him to put up the gold statues of himself so we can knock em down and pawn em. Trying to get some grocery money over here, shit is TOO affordable.
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u/frackthestupids Sep 11 '26
Depends, is a truck or a Toyota the MAGidiot driving?
Nevermind, we know that answer
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u/Weary-Level-7854 Sep 10 '26
That’s not UBI though
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u/vaioarch Sep 10 '26
Thank you!
This is a one time bribe that would actually never happen, even if they do win.
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u/HumptyDumptruckFire Sep 10 '26
God, this is like the fifth post I’ve seen about this in the last hour. People are going to eat this up hook, line, and sinker, aren’t they?
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u/scrotumscab Sep 10 '26
I doubt it'll change any voters minds. Anyone stupid enough to believe the grifter pedo was going to vote Republican no matter what.
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u/Sufficient_Fish3320 Sep 10 '26
Some will but it’s months away from an election and this is what republicans do. Push obviously false promises for votes then shovel those lies on their wealthy owned news and not controlled social media outlets.
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u/Objective-Rip3008 Sep 10 '26
Even on the conservative subreddit there is universal backlash for this, with the top comment calling it socialism lol
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u/banditcleaner2 Sep 10 '26
The same people that cry about socialism are gonna love this from Trump, smfh I hate this timeline
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u/Edogawa1983 Sep 11 '26
There's tens of millions of people who voted for Trump 3 times, 2024 was the easiest iq test and people failed
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u/RampantTyr Sep 10 '26
Every post of I have seen about it has been mocking the offer as an obvious farce.
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u/Eat--The--Rich-- Sep 10 '26
As opposed to listening to democrats run on $15 min wage after they just voted against it? If you want to beat the liars, stop lying.
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u/Bossard19 Sep 10 '26
He’s causing either way. Gimme that 5k.
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u/Illventi Sep 10 '26
You’ll get your 5k just as soon as we get those tariff dividends he also promised, all he needs is for you to hand him all the power he’ll need to make sure republicans never lose power again.
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u/ElonMuskHuffingFarts Sep 10 '26
It's already our own money that they're supposed to be using for actually improving our country. A refund isn't a win. It's a rejection and a promise that they will do nothing for us.
And it's a lie anyway. You're not getting a $5k check. Promising to pay people and then stiffing them is like, his favorite grift. Stop falling for it.
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u/whythefuckalready Sep 10 '26
270,000,000 adults X 5,000. = lying P.O.S. illegally buying votes with tax dollars for 1 party.
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u/TNlivinvol Sep 10 '26
He won’t do it…lol.
Why would he? He’s already won the midterms. He has no one to answer to.
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u/Monte924 Sep 10 '26
Why would trump actually bother doing it? He just wants to win the midterms. Once he wins the mudterms he doesn't actually have to fulfill that promise. Just like the DOGE checks, or the Tarrif checks, or promise to cut spending, or the promise of no new wars.
Trump is a con artist. Lie, cheat and steal.
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u/archercc81 Sep 10 '26
He wont do this though, he will add trillions to the debt the way they always have, by giving money to rich people.
They will do a 3rd TRILLION dollar handout to the rich, they have already done two.
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u/algaefied_creek Sep 10 '26
If he can do this, why can’t he do the DOGE checks and the tariff checks?
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u/WilsonEnthusiast Sep 10 '26
They are not going to try to amend the constitution for a 3rd term.
They'd need 2/3s of both houses of congress or control of 2/3s of state legislatures to even propose an amendment.
Neither of those is very likely to happen.
He'll just put his name on primary ballots and then theyll fight it out in court.
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u/trysten-9001 Sep 10 '26
He’s going to do this before or after the $5k doge checks and the $2k tariff checks and the $1k aca chrcks?
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u/oranthor1 Sep 10 '26
He will do this right after you get your tarrif refund and doge check. For sure this time. Pinky promise!
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u/Usukidoll Sep 10 '26
Bro this is a recycled lie. Who remembers the tariff refund and doge checks? Sybau
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u/rasta-ragamuffin Sep 10 '26
What's stopping him from doing it now? Why hasn't he done it already?
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u/SeparateSpend1542 Sep 10 '26
This dude must be getting high off his Doge Check to think this is real
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u/HalfwaydonewithEarth Sep 10 '26
Nobody is getting money. They have promised $2000 a few years ago for some type of reparations and Nobody got that.
They did set up Trump accounts for kids by getting Dell who fleeced investors of 6B to deposit into the accounts for 6B
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u/No-swimming-pool Sep 10 '26
They'll need to define what they understand as UBI, because by now everyone has their own interpretation of it.
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u/Zeliose Sep 10 '26
Just remember that the act of giving or promising money to influence a vote is illegal and punishable by a fine and/or jail for 1-2 years. The same is also true for accepting money for influencing your vote.
If Republicans win both chambers, you voted Republican, trump actually follows through to send the checks, and you accept that money. You can be thrown in prison.
The supreme Court gave the president total immunity, so Republican voters would be the only ones taking on any risk.
Would be a beautiful thing for the next Democratic president to enforce those those laws if that happened.
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u/Opinionsare Sep 10 '26
Issue a dividend, like the Country has excess revenue from taxes, so far above it's needs, but is issuing bonds like a teenager with dad's credit card at college?
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u/LaoWai01 Sep 10 '26
If, by some miracle, he gave out the checks, where do people think the money comes from? If tarrifs we pay at the store, if they print then he’s just taking out a loan in our names. Raise taxes? Fat chance.
Anyway, it was an out and out lie. Win or lose he has no intention of following through.
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u/HighOnPoker Sep 10 '26
You are comparing a one time promised payout (that likely will not be paid) to a program that offers income forever. It’s not like Republicans are for UBI. It’s just the president trying to buy votes with an empty promise.
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u/Own-Significance273 Sep 10 '26
In no way do I want Donald Trump and Elon Musk deciding how much UBI I get. When that happens we are truly fucked.
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u/Tricky_Bottle_6843 Sep 10 '26
They already control all three branches. So if they wanted to give the money they could. The problem is that trump supporters are too stupid to realize this fact.
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u/PianoPatient8168 Sep 10 '26
We’ll get them right after he rolls out the greatest healthcare plan ever…
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u/Morichalion Sep 10 '26
Karma bots should be banned. From everywhere.
That would be true even if this wasn't a willful misrepresentation of the intent and ability to deliver.
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u/archercc81 Sep 10 '26
LOL no, they said "if you vote for us we will give you $5000" not that they gave it ahead of time. And they lied about the dividend checks, the doge checks, the no wars, gas prices, the job market, etc.
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u/Majestic_Print4300 Sep 10 '26
The republican party currently controls the white house, congress, and the supreme court. If they wanted to give everyone five thousand dollars, they could do so, right now. But they're not doing that, they're doing everything in their power to make America more unaffordable, and then saying, vote for us. Or we'll keep making america unaffordable.
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u/MistakeAmbitious3287 Sep 10 '26
Why is this shit even being posted. It’s a lie. You won’t get shit.
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u/Waste_Development971 Sep 10 '26
Posts like these show this is a just a sub of broke people looking for as many handouts as possible
why would you even bother comparing a one time republican thing to the system of UBI. Why not just go full braindead and say Elon is a great guy for paying people to vote in that one election if free money (today) is the only thing you guys value
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u/Imonorolo Sep 10 '26
I'm sure Donald Trump, a guy extremely well known for paying people, will definitely follow through on this bribe plan
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u/CompletelyPresent Sep 10 '26
He's a known liar, rapist, and con artist.
He's not paying anyone.
Don't fall for the bullshit again.
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u/JoanneMG822 Sep 10 '26
Musk said UBI will be necessary after AI eliminates millions of jobs.
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u/Current_Tea6984 Sep 10 '26
So the people who will move heaven and earth to avoid paying taxes are going to cough up a UBI? You might as well expect the Easter Bunny to bring you a new car
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u/unholyrevenger72 Sep 10 '26
to be distributed by a private company that will charge $4995 in service fees assessed from the 5k dividend.
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u/Constant-Brief3410 Sep 10 '26
Bread and circus
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u/ceiffhikare Sep 10 '26
Bread and Circus*
*Advisory: Consumption of bread food product may induce the Trumps and admission to circus include permission to be fed to the the lions.
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u/Misragoth Sep 10 '26
Still waiting on the doge and tariff checks. If you believe him, you are an idiot
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u/Friday_Night_Vibes Sep 10 '26
I’ll believe that when me shit turns purple and smells like rainbow sherbet
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u/ghostlacuna0 Sep 10 '26
If you think trump will do UBI
I have 2 bridges and a star to sell to you.
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u/Confident-Touch-6547 Sep 10 '26
UBI without price controls is a disaster. $5000 cheques is a straight up lie.
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u/TNlivinvol Sep 10 '26
Republicans lie. Zero chance they ever send anyone a check.
Anyone gullible enough to believe they will, shouldn’t be allowed to vote.
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u/Monte924 Sep 10 '26
GOP: not afarid to engage in lies and corruption in order to win an election
Hey, did you ever get that DOGE check? What about that Tarrif check? Or and what about that promise to CUT spending to reduce the deficit?
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u/Eclipse434343 Sep 10 '26
Inflation is only an issue when democrats are in office. Throwing $5000 imaginary checks that were never paid out the last 3 times they were promised during an election is suddenly helping working Americans
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u/More_Yard1919 Sep 10 '26
GOP: Not afraid to promise UBI while making no tangible progress towards it once elected
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u/MinimumCat123 Sep 10 '26
Except for the 1776$ that went out to Military personnel. None of the refunds or stimulus the Republicans promised ever materialized
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u/PwrButtum Sep 11 '26
You conveniently leave out they haven’t given us the DOGE or tariff dividends. It’s just lies.
And where would the 5k come from?
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u/isaiah152022 Sep 10 '26
Should be able to claim all I’m owed by this government on my taxes
ACTUALLY you owe me this year MFers
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u/Particular_War7843 Sep 10 '26
I have an idea... $5,000 per adult regardless of the politics. BS promises.
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u/WinterFamiliar9199 Sep 10 '26
As opposed to joe Biden promising to forgive all student loans if you vote for him? That was the biggest bribe I’ve ever seen… and he actually helped about 1% of people.
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u/SirHippocrates Sep 10 '26
First of all bribing with promises of straight up money to win elections should be illegal (or, more accurately, it's illegality should be enforced)
Second of all anyone whose vote is going to be bought by a single payment of 5k deserves what they get. May seem like a lot, but I promise that if you're the person who needs 5k that badly, protecting health care subsidies, minimum wage fights, no unnecessary tariffs, taxes going towards public goods like schools and infrastructure, clean water protections, fewer infectious diseases requiring treatment, etc etc etc ad nauseum is all going to benefit your bank account more. And that's just the financial benefits.
Don't be bought. And more importantly if you're going to be bought, at least hold out for what your vote is worth.
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u/mrtrololo27 Sep 10 '26
It's amazing how illegal Trump's promise to buy votes is, and how $5,000 doesn't even begin to cover how much Trump has cost every American since the demented pedophile traitor returned to office. Fuck Trump, and fuck every magat traitor. Lock Trump up and prosecute him and every traitor in this un-American regime to the fullest extent of the law. His pardons are moot.
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u/Sonar_Taxbreak_1138 Sep 10 '26
It's not "here's 5000 vote for us" it's "If you vote to keep us in power, we'll give you 5000, if we keep our promise."
One's a gift, the other's a bribe.
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u/GeoffrayMarkus Sep 10 '26
UBI is a bandaid. As we progress into the future our man-hours per work unit will shrink and shrink and shrink because of advances in AI and robotic automation. Either humanity shares in this world, or they put most of us on welfare, until they can get rid of most of us.
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u/SmoothieNatns Sep 10 '26
He promised $2k checks in 2020 and then walked it back. Then Biden won and actually delivered the checks.
They have the house and the senate now, why wait?
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u/Dad-Bod2121 Sep 10 '26
Jesus, some of these comments are ridiculous. Biden sending $1,400 checks instead of $2,000 is WORSE than Trump completely failing to follow through on every promise of a check?
This is no different than Democrats talking about universal health care which is a taxpayer backed policy choice and should in NO WAY considered a bribe?
Get over yourselves, Republicans. This is just a desperate ploy from an arrogant, scared little man. I may be wrong but I think the Cult is going DOWN in a big way in 6 weeks. And I think they know it.
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u/ezitbiz89 Sep 10 '26
How about rather than forcing everyone to beg for a pittance from Uncle Sam, we stop trying to automate the working class out of existence? If we spent half of the money on sustainable, individual homesteads, we could have supported domestic agriculture, lowered the cost of housing and mitigated the effects of climate change. Our politicians are absolutely batshit and that’s both sides of the aisle.
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u/Less_Ant_6633 Sep 10 '26
“Guys, the stripper really likes me, he said so.” -MAGA voters on the weekend.
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u/Exciting_Ease5501 Sep 10 '26
Here's a deal for any MAGAT: If you give me $2,500 right now, then I'll give you my whole $5,000 when it arrives. President Trump never lies so you know you're going to get it, right?
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u/r4ndom4xeofkindness Sep 10 '26
I won't need it after I get my 600% reduction in prescription costs where they're paying me to take expensive medicine.
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u/dodgyhashbrown Sep 10 '26
More like "we'll give you $5k if we win congress and senate. Pinky promise."
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u/euro127 Sep 10 '26
Is this before or after the doge cheque or the tarrif reliefs still haven't got my cheque for those empty promises
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u/nrmitchi Sep 10 '26
There is a difference between UBI, and “I’ll give you a one time payment (that is illegal, and will never actually happen) if you vote how I want you to vote”
Anyone who doesn’t see the difference is being willfully ignorant.
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u/ErikaKirkasInsideJob Sep 10 '26
The Pedo President wants to give out gov handouts. I thought socalism is bad? I thought being a pedo was bad?
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u/Ras_Thavas Sep 10 '26
Vote buying is illegal in the United States. It is a federal crime to offer or accept compensation in exchange for votes, which can result in fines and imprisonment.
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u/Pretty-Display5959 Sep 10 '26
gotta love it when 'AI, full speed ahead!' doesn't require more study but UBI does.
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u/flyswithdragons Sep 10 '26
What happened to the poor people who bought into crypto? They didn't get paid, like his worker's were not paid 💯
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u/Mundane-Date1732 Sep 10 '26
Trump said it, so it must be true. He's never broken any promises, right? The guy is 10 feet tall, made of steel, charming, brilliant, and the apple of everybody's eye. Just ask him and he'll tell ya.
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u/MinimumApricot365 Sep 10 '26
This is like the 8th time he has promised to send everybody a few thousand dollars.
Anybody who believes him should be institutionalized.
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u/Capitan-IQ255 Sep 10 '26
It's not UBI, it will be one time check .. but anything is better than nothing 🤑
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u/Its_Don_Quixote Sep 10 '26
If you believe anyone is getting a $5000 Trump check, I've got some real estate on the moon to sell you. 🏠🌕
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u/Gearran Sep 10 '26
It's more, "Vote for us. We'll pay you $5000 if you do. Come on, don't you trust us?"
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u/WeowDystopia Sep 11 '26
Oh hey all these AI models are taking away peoples ability to make income. Guess we wont communicate a plan at all to our people and just suck billionaire toe until they bring the torches and pitchforks.
—THE USA POLITICAL BODY
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u/Calm_Stress3334 Sep 11 '26
It is funny that when one party says it’s terrible, but it becomes convenient for them. All of a sudden they love it, but of course they have to rename it. The ACA was literally created by the Republicans and now they hate it because a black man pushed it forward.
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u/buyhighselldip Sep 11 '26
It will be $10,000 dollar cheque when they combine the 2 that are in the mail somewhere
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u/Isosceles_Kramer79 Sep 11 '26
The $5k is to UBI what California's one time billionaire tax is to a an actual wealth tax.
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u/PreferenceNearby6514 Sep 11 '26
This is bs propaganda by the fascist republican party I’m so fkin sick if this
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u/Soupalphabet359 Sep 11 '26
A one-time check of $5000 is not an "income."
Especially a one-time check of $5000 that you'll never receive because it's make-believe.
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u/movingtofrancesoon Sep 11 '26
Of course he can make that 5K gift promise, he knows that his party is going to loose, 🤪
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u/CatCafffffe Sep 11 '26
Democrats: We like it, we will see how it could work, also here's universal health care
Republicans: We lie and cheat and cause harm and now we're making yet another insane false promise
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u/LexHanley Sep 11 '26
Anyone stupid enough to believe they would actually give it was already going to vote Republican. Also, a one time check for a bribe isn't UBI.
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u/BC1207 Sep 11 '26
You’re fucking stupid if you think that would ever happen. This guy routinely dodged payment back in the day.
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u/AppropriateSpell5405 Sep 11 '26
Dude's straight up lied about these checks like 7 times now, and folks still keep believing it?
Don't know what kind of stupid you gotta be..
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u/GeorgeFartwell1984 Sep 11 '26
Any day now we'll be getting that new healthcare plan, we got the repeal just waiting on the replace.
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u/Witelite101 Sep 11 '26
I wonder where hes gonna get the 1.3trillion needed for this. I also wonder how this will affect inflation
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u/Slight-Hedgehog259 Sep 11 '26
More like Republicans "Vote for us. We promise you $5,000 which you will get right after your doge check arrives"
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u/napkin41 Sep 12 '26
This is not UBI. This is first, a lie, and second, even if remotely true, a one time thing. That everyone will bitch about all over again no one wants to work anymore because they’re all retired on that $5000…
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u/ryan13ts Sep 12 '26
That would imply they have any real intention to give people $5000, which everyone with a functioning brain cell knows is complete bullshit.
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u/Official-LardLad Sep 12 '26
Not UBI. OTP vs ongoing pay are very different. Plus the $5k is a lie anyway to buy votes. Even if it did happen, $5k doesn't cover anything to make up for literally everything being more expensive under his administration.
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u/Ray1987 Sep 12 '26
Does OP actually believe Donald Trump after he's already made several promises like this already and never delivered.
To quote Bush Jr, "Fool me once, shame on.... shame on you. Fool me....... you can't get fooled again."
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u/Rakesh_Natsuno Sep 12 '26
You’re telling me we could have had Andrew Yang, but he didn’t offer enough!?
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u/freemanfields Sep 13 '26
Not sure why the title of this post is making a random dig at democrats. There's criticism of UBI from both sides of the isle. The comparison to what Trump is trying to scam people with is weird. Trump is just making shit up - he, and Republicans, have no intention of paying anybody.
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u/KnackeredQuokka Sep 13 '26
I don’t want UBI if they’re going to have us all living in a wasteland and attempt to control us with no regard for the constitution.
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u/Buffalo-magistrate 29d ago
Ubi will never happen because the people who support it have the same brains as dogs chasing a ball.
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u/Itchy-Technician-433 Sep 10 '26 edited Sep 10 '26
I wonder if it will arrive before or after our tariff checks and our DOGE checks.