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Bluetus

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6. He is referring to a new "Sovereigh Wealth Fund"

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Reply #4)

Wed Apr 2, 2025, 09:57 PM

Apr 2025

There is no basis for any of that anywhere in US law AFAIK. He seems Putin and MBS with gigantic personal slush funds and he's trying to do the same thing. Dems need to be raising hell about this. There could conceivably be hundreds of billions of dollars in this slush fund before long.

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Didnt the piece of shit say the tariff monies would go into a special department only he has access to? [View all] Eliot Rosewater Apr 2025 OP

A slush fund Bluetus Apr 2025 #1

Thought so, and watch the GOP do absolutely nothing. Civil war is likely and probably necessary Eliot Rosewater Apr 2025 #2

He may have said it, but that's not how tariffs are paid. gab13by13 Apr 2025 #3

Right, so what is he referring to? someone is guiding him on this... Eliot Rosewater Apr 2025 #4

He is referring to a new "Sovereigh Wealth Fund" Bluetus Apr 2025 #6

But where is the money coming from, tariffs are paid by the foreign company Eliot Rosewater Apr 2025 #8

The importer is supposed to pay Customs and Border Protection Bluetus Apr 2025 #5

OK but does the importer already pay that without tariffs existing? Eliot Rosewater Apr 2025 #9

Not sure I understand Bluetus Apr 2025 #10

Won't he just take -- as a 'sales tax' -- from the increased cost of goods consumers pay? LaRaven Apr 2025 #7

I'm not sure who you mean by "he" Bluetus Apr 2025 #11