Thursday, September 10, 2026

Another Log On The Pile

Add another log to the pile:
Trump now says he's handing out $500 “rebate” checks to nearly 1 million people and calling it justice for being “wrongly overcharged” on Obamacare, after his administration let the enhanced ACA tax credits expire, raising what enrollees pay by an average of $1,016 a year if they kept the same plan.

On top of that, Americans have already spent $670–$770 extra per household this year just on gasoline and diesel from the Iran war. Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi estimated in June that the war had already cost American households roughly $1,000 each through higher fuel, food, and other expenses.

It’s a familiar authoritarian tactic: impose economic pain by taking away things people rely on, offer to hand back a fraction of what people lost, and then demand praise for the “relief.”
Something else that will never happen, and Trump will deny he ever said. Besides: Or $500 to 1 million Americans (do they also get the $5000?). Congress can do it.

But they won’t. And Trump can’t do it, unless they do.
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