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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo where is the +$175 billion generated from tariffs?
As I try to keep up with this, one thing i have missed is where did all this money go? Is any accounting the spending?
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So where is the +$175 billion generated from tariffs? (Original Post)
BeneteauBum
7 hrs ago
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FoxNewsSucks
(11,622 posts)1. It funded more tax cuts for corporations & billionaires. They aren't
doing well, and need our help. We should just give them anything we have left, and get it over with.
2naSalit
(101,466 posts)2. In -45's
Bank accounts.
he honestly thinks all the money in the Treasury is his now.
gab13by13
(31,778 posts)3. Probably in the same bank in Qatar
where he stole the Venezuelan oil money.
Igel
(37,467 posts)4. It's supposed to be collected by Customs
and deposited into the General Fund of the US Treasury.
https://govfacts.org/money/broader-economy/trade-policy/so-where-does-tariff-money-go/
Presumably if anything different happened, one of the thousands of people privy to that information just might have said something.
Walleye
(44,267 posts)5. Trump believes that every dollar in the US treasury belongs to him. And he doesn't have to do anything he's told to do.