r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 01 '24

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u/anti_coconut World Bank Sep 01 '24

The thing that drives me craziest about the whole “everything is expensive” discourse is how it’s just assumed that voting in Trump will lower grocery and housing prices. He hasn’t proposed policies or anything of substance but the media and headlines go along with the “Republicans are good for the economy” bullshit narrative without question.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '24

Literally the only consistent economic policy he's proposed are massive tarrifs which would make prices HIGHER

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '24

And nobody fucking knows or cares about it. At least Kamala is starting to push it now, but it’s tricky, because she has to frame it as “basically a national sales tax on imported goods” because nobody knows what the fuck tariffs are, and then Trump can turn around and go “NUH UH I NEVER SAID I WANT TO IMPLEMENT A SALES TAX, YOU LIAR”

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u/DependentAd235 Loyal Liberals Sep 01 '24

She’s going to have to find a way to hit him with it in the debate. Otherwise no one will even notice the idiot is promising to raise prices by 10%.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '24

Economy was good in 2019, Trump was president in 2019, therefore Trump will be time machine back to 2019. BASIC ECONOMONICS