ByKelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes Staff.
President Donald Trump has a new pitch for taxpayers, and it sounds simple enough: Send everyone a $2,000 per person tariff "dividend."
Trump pitched the idea on social media over the weekend, posting on Truth Social, "People that are against Tariffs are FOOLS!,” then promising that “A dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone."
It made headlines, for sure—taxpayers love getting a check from the government (we've seen many such pitches, post-COVID, since voters still remember fondly the checks they got during the pandemic). But as always, the details matter.
