2024-09-05 18:57:51
The claim that Trump proposed using taxpayer money for this purpose is incorrect. Trump proposed using money collected from foreign countries through tarifs to create a Sovereign Wealth Fund dedicated to funding infrastructure projects. Transcript here: [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(18-0-25) Author
2024-09-05 19:11:58
NNN: the fund may get paid for by tariffs, but tariffs are inevitably passed on to consumers, which effectively becomes taxation by other means [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(9-0-5) Author
2024-09-05 19:58:37
NNN - tariffs are paid by US tax-resident businesses as import taxes; i.e., they are literally paid by U.S. taxpayers. They are also practically passed on to U.S. consumers. [Link][Link][Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(12-0-4) Author