Now what?

[Hank]

30 minutes ago, JujuFish said:

This certainly doesn't match reality at all. Not only did Republicans control both the House and Senate, but they nearly universally worked with Trump. One exception I can think of, thanks to Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and John McCain voting no, was not allowing Trump to dismantle the Affordable Care Act without something to replace it.

Democrats regained the House during the midterms, but Republicans maintained control of the Senate throughout Trump's term.

Thank you for correcting me on that. A quick Google search would have told me that the house and senate were red in 18, my bad. 

[SwampD]

14 minutes ago, Hank said:

Thank you for correcting me on that. A quick Google search would have told me that the house and senate were red in 18, my bad. 

As I think project 2025 is awful and would set the country backward, and that tariffs would destroy this country, and that I don’t hate gays and women and ethnicities, hope they do nothing.

[Hank]

12 hours ago, SwampD said:

As I think project 2025 is awful and would set the country backward, and that tariffs would destroy this country, and that I don’t hate gays and women and ethnicities, hope they do nothing.

I don't know anything about tariffs. If you (or anyone else) wouldn't mind indulging me, why are they a bad thing?

Thanks in advance...

[SwampD]

30 minutes ago, Hank said:

I don't know anything about tariffs. If you (or anyone else) wouldn't mind indulging me, why are they a bad thing?

Thanks in advance...

If you (generic “you”) think the economy is bad now (it’s not) and inflation is out of control, just wait until companies would have to pass along their tariff costs to consumers. No amount of whatever relief we would get for lower federal taxes is going to make that up. And the rich can afford to pay more for stuff. Everyone else suffers. We’d be right back to the robber baron days which someone else already mentioned.

[Weave]

1 hour ago, Hank said:

I don't know anything about tariffs. If you (or anyone else) wouldn't mind indulging me, why are they a bad thing?

Thanks in advance...

Tariff costs almost always get passed on to the customer.  They tend to contribute to inflation.

[K-9]

2 hours ago, Hank said:

I don't know anything about tariffs. If you (or anyone else) wouldn't mind indulging me, why are they a bad thing?

Thanks in advance...

There’s no shortage of info about tariffs and the harm they do to economies. Trumps plan has been universally condemned by leading economists both here and around the world. Here’s a little article for your consumption:

https://taxfoundation.org/blog/trump-tariffs-impact-economy/#:~:text=Tariffs are trade barriers that,percent tariff on Mexican imports.

[Hank]

2 hours ago, SwampD said:

If you (generic “you”) think the economy is bad now (it’s not) and inflation is out of control, just wait until companies would have to pass along their tariff costs to consumers. No amount of whatever relief we would get for lower federal taxes is going to make that up. And the rich can afford to pay more for stuff. Everyone else suffers. We’d be right back to the robber baron days which someone else already mentioned.

 

43 minutes ago, Weave said:

Tariff costs almost always get passed on to the customer.  They tend to contribute to inflation.

 

10 minutes ago, K-9 said:

There’s no shortage of info about tariffs and the harm they do to economies. Trumps plan has been universally condemned by leading economists both here and around the world. Here’s a little article for your consumption:

https://taxfoundation.org/blog/trump-tariffs-impact-economy/#:~:text=Tariffs are trade barriers that,percent tariff on Mexican imports.

Thank you all. I'm not trying to argue FOR tariffs, or say they are a good thing. I'm ignorant about them and would like to be a little less ignorant. 

[Weave]

13 minutes ago, Hank said:

 

 

Thank you all. I'm not trying to argue FOR tariffs, or say they are a good thing. I'm ignorant about them and would like to be a little less ignorant. 

Maybe I am misinterpreting, but you seem to have gone into the ballot box with the idea the interest rates and inflation were the faults of Biden’s polices.  I think if there is one thing you can say Biden did well on, it was listening to the experts and staying out of their way.

[SwampD]

1 hour ago, Weave said:

Maybe I am misinterpreting, but you seem to have gone into the ballot box with the idea the interest rates and inflation were the faults of Biden’s polices.  I think if there is one thing you can say Biden did well on, it was listening to the experts and staying out of their way.

He said he didn't vote for Trump. So That's good.

[Weave]

17 minutes ago, SwampD said:

He said he didn't vote for Trump. So That's good.

I wasn’t trying to suggest anything other than it’s a little late for this election to be asking those kind of questions.

[SwampD]

29 minutes ago, Weave said:

I wasn’t trying to suggest anything other than it’s a little late for this election to be asking those kind of questions.

Better than never asking them.

[Weave]

22 minutes ago, SwampD said:

Better than never asking them.

True, but if interest rates and inflation are your significant motivators for who you favor, asking in October would have been the play.

[SABRES 0311]

Welp, ICBMs going both ways in the last couple days.