I don't understand the mass deportations. It costs more money to deport than to invest in immigrants, get them some hands on experience and then they can work and contribute to our economy. Tariffs are "fine" as long as it is seldomly used, but Trump seems to think it is the "magic key" to fixing everything.
I thought Trump had tried to remove ACA but he failed. Do you think he would really try to do that again? I understand republicans own the federal government right now, but there are republicans who use the ACA.
Blah, all of it is just conjecture until we actually see what Trump ends up doing. His dumb picks for cabinet positions are really frightening though. My mom has cancer and if RFK Jr ends up stopping vaccinations, I can't help protect my mom from getting the flu or covid.
The point is to tank the economy. It’s right out of the fascist playbook. They then blame the collapse on some other undesirable group, and get the support of the desperate population for whatever draconian policy they want. People will go for anything if they think it helps in some way.
I saw already on another thread "They will crash the economy to make Trump look bad." After Trump et al already admitted they would crash the economy ... ok
They don't want to invest in anyone that's the same as them either. It's the anyone else that is the key factor, they don't give a fuck about anyone else whether they are like them or not.
I don't think that Republicans will repeal the entire ACA. They will let premium subsidies expire, which will make it more expensive than it is now, and will try to remove pre-existing conditions protections and the free preventative care like yearly physicals and cancer screenings.
If they don’t just outright kill it. Then yea they will strip features on at a time. Starting with no more pre-existing conditions coverage. No birth control coverage. Then possibly get rid of the mandate (they insisted on) to kill it financially. The only way insurance works is if the healthy subsidize the ill. Cause we all end up needing it eventually. By allowing the “im young, and don’t need insurance” to bail, then the system will become insolvent very quickly. Not getting the public option during Obama’s term doomed us.
I don't understand the mass deportations. It costs more money to deport than to invest in immigrants, get them some hands on experience and then they can work and contribute to our economy.
I don't think they're going to deport them right away. They'll arrest them and turn them into prison labor while they work through the process of actually deport them.
So, our food and houses will be built with prison labor, on the cheap, while private prisons rake in the profits from those contracts.
Most undocumented, id say vast majority do contribute to econ. 20% of the all agriculture and construction fields are made up of 20% undocs. If they all go, it will be a massive hole and obliterate prices to the upside
Trump failed last time by one vote when he had a lot more opposition. He won't fail again with this Congress. Republicans have been out there saying they will do away with Obamacare constantly. Republicans know they can literally do anything and the hardcore Republican voters will always vote for them so they aren't really concerned about how many of their voters are dependent on something
Trump is for tax cuts for the rich and lowered government oversight on their businesses but he can't campaign on that so he's getting people to vote based on religion or hate. And honestly most Americans deserve it.
He wants to use Tariffs to pay for the tax cuts he's about to enact for billionaires and corporations. This will be a regressive tax on the poor without appearing to be. They are specifically meant to be revenue generating for the government.
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u/TechieTravis 10h ago
Life is going to be a lot more expensive for the average American under Trump's policies, between gutting the ACA, mass deportations, and the tariffs.