Magnanamimous in Victory

[sanantone]

What policies of his will “fix” inflation and lead to economic prosperity? Right now inflating is around two and a half percent which is just about where we want it to be. Granted wages have not kept up with inflation so people feel the hurt, but he has no plans to increase wages and wants to weaken union’s power to negotiate for better wages and working conditions.

His planned tariffs and deportation will like raise the cost of goods. His tax cuts will increase the deficit and disproportionately benefit the richest Americans. His plans to remove regulations will allow companies, including big oil, to charge whatever they want. So drill baby drill wont lower the cost if he remove price gouging laws.

One of the top searches after the election was "what is a tariff". Half the country doesn't understand anything. Half the country reads below the 7th grade level. In the past, college-educated people tended to vote Republican for lower taxes on higher incomes. The Republican Party's anti-intellectualism has pushed these people to the Democratic Party. We're currently seeing a realignment of voting populations.

During Trump's first administration, his tariffs caused soybean farmers to go bankrupt, and the suicide rate among them increased. We taxpayers had to spend billions to bail them out. When Trump applied tariffs to imported washing machines, the cost of foreign and domestic washing machines and dryers increased. We're still living under Trump's tariffs. Tariffs are hard to remove because they trigger retaliatory actions from the targeted countries. Trump is now promising across the board tariffs. This is not a fiscally conservative position. Fiscal conservatives believe in free trade.