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Satyrday for us peasant folks. We need a day too.
Jack

Remember your first reaction when you first saw or heard about it?

At the Republican midterm convention in Dallas last night, Trump promised a $5,000 “Trump Dividend” to every adult U.S. citizen — but only if Republicans keep both the House and Senate in November. How should Democrats respond?

The cost: roughly $1.35 trillion. That’s nearly one-quarter of the federal government’s entire annual revenue.

Trump claimed tariffs could pay for it, but the supposed tariff windfall is disappearing: most of the $166 billion collected under the tariffs struck down by the Supreme Court is expected to be refunded.

We’ve tried massive cash injections before. Pandemic stimulus under both Trump and Biden helped Americans through the crisis, but economists found the added demand also contributed to the inflation that followed.

Sure, Democrats should blast this for the insane budgeting foolery that it is — BUT why not have some fun and call his bluff. Say they’ll vote for it if billionaires pay for it. A one time 13% tax on billionaire wealth would get it done. Read more about this on my Substack today.

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CNN Fact Check: Trump makes numerous false claims in Republican convention speech.

SOME CAMPAIGN SIGNS ARE MORE EFFECTIVE THAN OTHERS by John Darkow

[John Darkow has been a professional cartoonist for over 20 years, spending the last 10 as the staff cartoonist at the Columbia Daily Tribune. He is syndicated internationally by Cagle Cartoons.]

Attribution: LABOR DAY BEFORE AND AFTER by Graeme MacKay

[Graeme MacKay born in Ontario, Canada, his worked as staff editorial cartoonist for The Hamilton Spectator since 1997, earning multiple national awards and nominations, including citations from the United Nations and the Association of Canadian Cartoonists.]

Attribution: by Bill Day

Bill Day is a two-time winner of the RFK Journalism Award in Cartooning, and his cartoons are syndicated internationally by Cagle Cartoons. He is currently the editorial cartoonist for FloridaPolitics.com