What will be true about Trump's tariff dividend? ("stimulus check")
Prediction market on manifold. [image](Forbes article about his post) Will it happen? If it does what will be true? For ease of common parlance, "stimulus check" in this market is referring to the "dividends" of his post. If this becomes a completely unsustainable metaphor, some answers may need to resolve or be rewritten. Will resolve to best reporting, at latest by the end of his time in office or within a few months after the checks go out to let news stories shake loose. If the check doesn't materialize before he leaves office, answers that are able to will resolve to YES or NO rather than N/A. (If that happens, I hope it's clear that most would resolve NO, but I imagine "All for the same amount" probably has to resolve N/A since it can be easily read as YES and NO if there are no checks) Clarifications: Because this "resolves to best reporting", the answer to most clarifying questions about "What does 'some' or 'significant' mean?" is: does the news report on it as a big deal? The base value of the dividend per person is what matters. If you can get $2000 cash but also have options for a $2100 tax credit or a $1900 instant deposit, that's a $2000 check If the base value doesn't end up being the same per person and ends up straddling over one of the answers, the answer resolves to the percent across the line (say 20% of receivers only get $100 and the other 80% get $300, then "≥$200" resolves to 80%) "non-citizens or non-existent persons" is intentionally broad in order to also include companies, AIs, and fraud Real implementation is what we're measuring, so if judicial/ legislative intervention changes anything, or reporting shows it's not aligned with announcements, that's what matters AI Gibberish Area, occasionally deleted: Update 2025-11-10 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): Regarding the answer about "non-citizens or non-existent persons": This includes legal resident aliens (even though they were eligible for previous stimulus rounds). The answer is intentionally broad to cover multiple scenarios: Whether Trump attempts to exclude non-citizen legal residents (differently from previous stimuli) Whether distribution flaws create exploitable gaps for bad actors Whether "dividends" are actually directed to corporations instead of individuals (trickle-down economics approach) Update 2025-12-19 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): If Trump calls a payment the "tariff dividend", the market will resolve based on it, even if the funding source is not actually from tariffs (e.g., if it's from reallocated funds like troop housing). Update 2025-12-20 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): The market will resolve based on the "Warrior Dividend" (a payment to military members), but resolution will be partial and staged: Answers that can be determined from the Warrior Dividend alone (like "Any American receives it") have been resolved Other answers (like ">$2000" and "only given out to military") will remain open to see if additional versions of "tariff dividends" are announced or distributed The creator is waiting to see if other thresholds are met by future dividend programs before resolving remaining answers The AI keeps spamming duplicative nonsense with every reply I make so I've gotta shut it off for now. There will be no AI clarifications added to this market's description. (ugh wish this were just a toggle)
Liquidity: $18,000. Resolves: 1/22/2029.