The promise landed with the force of a campaign-trail thunderclap, packaged in the kind of simplicity that always makes people pause: a $2,000 dividend for every working family, paid straight from the revenue of aggressive new tariffs. The idea sounded clean, sharp, and almost elegant—money flowing back to the people, a closed loop where America taxed foreign goods and handed the spoils to its own citizens. At least, that was the pitch.
