My Idea for a Tariff Dividend Is Way Better Than President Tump’s

If He Really Cares About America He’d Actually Do It

Voters receiving a $500 incentive to vote

A $2,000 Tariff Dividend is very different than the Republican Party’s promise in 1928 of “a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage”. Republican groups ran campaign advertisements saying a vote for Herbert Hoover would assure Americans economic Prosperity. While it was a slick marketing campaign that helped Hoover get elected, a year later in October 1929 the stock market crashed and started the 10 years long Great Depression.

Promising almost all Americans a $2,000 check from Trump’s ‘personal Federal Government bank’ shortly before the 2026 midterm elections is of course not a marketing ploy. It’s simply directly buying votes.

Projections based on the best guesstimates of who and how many will actually receive ‘dividends’ (sure is a nice sounding word), it will cost at least $300 Billion.

As quoted in Delaware Online, Erica York, a policy expert at the Tax Foundation, said in a post on X, “If the cutoff is $100,000, 150M adults would qualify, for a cost near $300 billion. If kids qualify, that grows. Only problem, new tariffs have raised $120 billion so far.”

My dividend check won’t provide Americans with as much money but will be much more bigly and beautiful for America, and it’s future than Trump’s blatant payoff.

Imagine the impact and excitement around every Citizen that is eligible to vote actually votes?

There are approximately 262 million American Citizens aged 18 or over that are eligible to vote. In the 2024 election, 36% of them, 94,320,000 simply chose not to vote, for various reasons.

Let’s save $170 Billion and give $500 to every American Citizen that votes!!! A $500 incentive will cost $130 Billion.

Or, save $222 Billion and give each voter $300. A $300 incentive will cost $78 Billion.

Every state has the voter records so there would be ‘no skimming’ by the wealthy and corrupt as happened under the COVID stimulus.

Of course Congress would need to change current law — and it’s more than likely neither the Democratic or Republican Party 'owners' really wouldn’t want everyone to vote.