That's not how it works. So no.
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So he shouldn't get any credit for all the extra money the government makes for the tariffs?
Sure, he owns those tariffs. He gets all the credit for them. That doesn't give him any greater control over the budget and certainly doesn't give him his own special piggy bank to spend however he pleases.
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1. How much additional revenue is the government making off these new tariffs? I’d love a dollar figure. How much of those revenues can be used for wall funding?
2. How much is Donald’s wall projected to cost to build and maintain? Do we even know what it will be built of? In just the past few weeks Donald has said concrete, steel, solar panels, and pikes so it’s transparent. John kelly in just the past few weeks said it’s a fence.
2b. Have we figured the environmental costs? Or the imminent domain costs to buy out land owners along the Rio?
3. How much more (or less) revenue is our government receiving when the farm bailouts from the trade war have figured into the picture? What does it matter if we take a few million more in tariff revenue if we are spending billions to bail out american soybean farmers who have lost their primary market, China?
These are basic questions that I haven’t seen any trump official answer.
Yeah but if it wasn't for him there wouldn't be those extra revenue in the budget. You can't have it both ways, LOL ..
You're right, you can't have it both ways. You can only have it one way, the way our laws dictate that it is done. That's the one way you can have it.
What I meant was you can't get the extra money that Trump makes via his business savy-ness but not have Trump be the President.. you can't have both.
What would you rather have: No tariffs money + No wall OR Tariffs money + Wall.
I'd rather take tariffs money + Wall for border security.
No Tariffs, no wall, no Trump, tyvm.
We can always raise taxes (aka tariffs) and say "hey, look at this extra money!" That's not business savvy. There has been no evidence that Trump is or has ever been particularly good at business.
I'm not talking about no Trump, he's already the President. I'm talking about tariffs vs the wall.
No tariffs money + No wall OR Tariffs money + Wall.
Forget about Trump - which would you rather have?
You already have my answer.
Alfalfa
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Neither. Why would we want things that hurt us?
You're trying to include Trump in the equation. I'm trying to be pragmatic. Don't make it about Trump. Think about it objectively.