Trumps Taps Into Resentment Nor Racism

Originally Posted by matchingmole

You seem like you hate white people.

Do you have any comment on the racially targeted attack on the school bus?

Our situations sound about identical but perhaps not in actual dollar amounts.


I guess what I'm not understanding is what you want done besides go back to a time when Trump wasn't President and China was kicking our ass. Are you for price controls, government COLA's? What is your main complaint and your solution to fix it? Originally Posted by HedonistForever

Tariffs, a policy with which very few economists would agree is a correct policy, are hurting each and everyone of us. Maybe in the long term Trump's policies will be successful and we, as a country, will be better off after agreements are made. I don't trust China. Even if agreements are signed, I don't trust them to follow through. So I think we are in a lose-lose situation.

But I'll go back to my original post in this thread. Friendly Fred said we are ALL better off financially under Trump. I don't think I am. The surge in the stock market is meaningless to me. At least temporarily, the tariffs have increased my cost of living beyond my growth in income. Unfortunately since tariffs are a "hidden tax" which are difficult to see on a day-to-day basis, it is difficult to substantiate my opinion.

But I'll go back to my original post in this thread. Friendly Fred said we are ALL better off financially under Trump. I don't think I am. The surge in the stock market is meaningless to me. At least temporarily, the tariffs have increased my cost of living beyond my growth in income. Unfortunately since tariffs are a "hidden tax" which are difficult to see on a day-to-day basis, it is difficult to substantiate my opinion. Originally Posted by SpeedRacerXXX

I will agree Fred should have said the "vast vast majority" of us are better off financially under Trump. There are outliers as you are pointing out.

However, I will go back to my post on the CPI in 2011 vs. the CPI today(equivalent points in Trump and Obama's terms) and under the same financial constraints you are discussing a CPI of over 3% would certainly be harder on you than the current 1.7-2% you are I guess blaming on the tariffs.

The tariffs have not moved the actual measures very much regardless of the hype otherwise. Historically a 1.7-2% CPI is on the low average side of things, putting Trump's economy in a winning position comparatively even for those not directly benefiting from it.

a bit off topic, not that this thread didn't fling "on-topic" away 2 pages ago..

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