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Sprintcyclist Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 41141 Gender:	DOGE checks Nov 23^rd, 2025 at 10:07am What will the americans here spend their DOGE checks on? The $2 gas?
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Armchair_Politician Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 27868 Gender:	Re: DOGE checks Reply #1 - Nov 23^rd, 2025 at 1:05pm Cheque.
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Jasin Gold Member Online Posts: 54014 Gender:	Re: DOGE checks Reply #2 - Nov 23^rd, 2025 at 1:09pm TRUMP.
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Re: DOGE checks
Reply #3 - Nov 23^rd, 2025 at 1:13pm

Armchair_Politician wrote on Nov 23^rd, 2025 at 1:05pm:

Cheque.

To be fair, DOGE is an American thing so 'checks' is technically correct.

Not that anyone will receive any money (unless they're a billionaire).

Q: Will U.S. citizens receive stimulus or tariff-based checks of $2,000 in November?

A: No checks are being issued. President Donald Trump said he wants to use tariff revenue to give “dividend” payments of “at least $2,000” to “middle-income people and lower-income people.” But no formal plan has been finalized and approved by Congress. Fiscal policy experts say there’s not enough tariff revenue for that.

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Jasin Gold Member Online Posts: 54014 Gender:	Re: DOGE checks Reply #4 - Nov 23^rd, 2025 at 1:20pm TRUMP
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Armchair_Politician Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 27868 Gender:	Re: DOGE checks Reply #5 - Nov 23^rd, 2025 at 2:32pm Jasin wrote on Nov 23^rd, 2025 at 1:20pm: TRUMP = LOSER
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Marla Gold Member Offline A joint a day keeps the MAGA away Posts: 14515 Colorado Gender:	Re: DOGE checks Reply #6 - Nov 24^th, 2025 at 12:28am Yeah, these checks are in the mail as much as high food prices were ending on day one.
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Sprintcyclist Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 41141 Gender:	Re: DOGE checks Reply #7 - Nov 24^th, 2025 at 8:32pm Oh, I forgot about that, whatever will they do when the Tariff cheques start rolling in?
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Marla Gold Member Offline A joint a day keeps the MAGA away Posts: 14515 Colorado Gender:	Re: DOGE checks Reply #8 - Nov 25^th, 2025 at 1:36am Sit back and watch inflation get severely out of control
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Jasin Gold Member Online Posts: 54014 Gender:	Re: DOGE checks Reply #9 - Nov 25^th, 2025 at 8:21am It has been since COVID lockdown ended and everyone went nuts after it
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greggerypeccary Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 147646 Gender:	Re: DOGE checks Reply #10 - Nov 25^th, 2025 at 9:38am Marla wrote on Nov 25^th, 2025 at 1:36am: Sit back and watch inflation get severely out of control Hang on! Didn't the convicted felon and adjudicated rapist in the White (Supremacist) House say that the US has no inflation? You know, right after he ended the Ukraine war.
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Re: DOGE checks
Reply #11 - Nov 25^th, 2025 at 11:03am

Sprintcyclist wrote on Nov 23^rd, 2025 at 10:07am:

What will the americans here spend their DOGE checks on?

The $2 gas?

DOGE checks (cheques) are a good idea, to maintain the vote of the population in a cost of living crisis, aka 'helicopter money'.

Which won't cause inflation if the money is spent on essentials which are readily available.

And need not be accounted as government debt, because the central government can create money ex nihilio (like banks do when they issue credit (loans) for credit worthy customers) - unfortunately impermissible at present.

Hence ex DOGE CEO Musk, captured by Neoclassical 'balanced government budget' dogma, won't like it.

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Reply #12 - Nov 25^th, 2025 at 11:10am

greggerypeccary wrote on Nov 23^rd, 2025 at 1:13pm:

Armchair_Politician wrote on Nov 23^rd, 2025 at 1:05pm:

Cheque.

To be fair, DOGE is an American thing so 'checks' is technically correct.

Not that anyone will receive any money (unless they're a billionaire).

Q: Will U.S. citizens receive stimulus or tariff-based checks of $2,000 in November?

A: No checks are being issued. President Donald Trump said he wants to use tariff revenue to give “dividend” payments of “at least $2,000” to “middle-income people and lower-income people.” But no formal plan has been finalized and approved by Congress. Fiscal policy experts say there’s not enough tariff revenue for that.

Good post.

Note, spending by lower income people on essentials won't cause inflation if those essentials are readily available.

As for the "revenue from tariffs" narrative, that remains to be seen...

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