Okay, let's figure this out.

In 2022, the US took in $5 trillion in tax receipts. In that same year, the US imported goods worth $4 trillion.

So, we're going to need 125% tariffs to make this work?

Oof.

#politics

More lies from the CheetoKKKlown:

"Numerous polls indicate the difference in support between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris is well within the margin of error – the race is tied – in Nevada and other every other battleground state.

But in Las Vegas Thursday, Trump said “we are leading by a lot in Nevada,” in addition to all the other battleground states."

https://www.alternet.org/trump-vegas/

“Our country was probably... the wealthiest it ever was because it was a system of tariffs.” His love of the era has become so pronounced that it’s now a fixture of his stump speech, meant to defend the massive tariffs now central to the economic platform he’s promising in a second term. There’s just one problem: His comments are historically oblivious, evincing no awareness of the depression of the 1890s, whose severity was owed, in part, to the protectionist tariffs he praises
~ Eric Rauchway,

Ihar Mahaniok:
I’m endorsing Kamala Harris for President.

Most of you have already decided who to vote for, and you have your information. So I won’t waste time debating which of the candidates will be better for the economy (I agree with 23 Nobel laureates here), for healthcare, especially women, or for our international standing. I will talk about something that’s personal to me.

Unlike most of the voters, I lived in a dictatorship...

Project 2025 has not gone away

https://stopproject2025comic.org/

#LIARS

"The misinformation — spread online by former Trump administration national security adviser Michael Flynn and former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., among others — suggests that a Defense Department policy revision released in late September was timed to interfere with the Nov. 5 presidential election.

Use of force by federal troops on U.S. soil against U.S. civilians is against the law — except in cases of self-defense — and is outlined in the Posse Comitatus Act."

#politics

I know there are a few other Wisconsinites here, so I'd like to remind you that early voting in Wisconsin (in-person absentee voting) starts Tuesday, October 22, 2024.

Find where you can go to vote early here:

https://myvote.wi.gov/en-us/Vote-Absentee-In-Person

Make a plan to vote, set a date, look up your ballot races and issues, and get out there and cast your vote as early as you can!