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Posted on 4/10/26 at 1:47 pm to roadGator
quote:I don't care what AI says. What have you purchased that went up in price?
Gemini AI says…
Posted on 4/10/26 at 2:04 pm to RollTide4547
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consumer goods like clothing (up ~17.5%), furniture (up ~7.4%), electronics, and footwear.
Posted on 4/10/26 at 2:29 pm to stout
The reality is our spending and deficit situation cannot be addressed in any way without the costs being passed on to the taxpayers. Tariffs are the least painful path and most fair, as the increased cost of goods affects everyone. And they have added benefit of spurring economic growth and domestic manufacturing which increases tax revenues.
The other options to reduce the deficit are
Raise income taxes. Less fair than tariffs, adds burden to people who pay net amount of taxes which is less than 50% of the population. This would hurt economic growth and be the worst choice of all.
Next choice
Cut spending. This is the choice most people default to and on the surface seems most logical. However, take 1 trillion of current of govt spending out of the economy and watch it crash. This would require massive cuts to military, weakening our ability to project power and economic pain on private companies with defense contracts. You’d have to cut social security, hurting elderly. You’d have to cut welfare, hurting the poor. Retail and other areas of the economy would be hit hard as people who rely on govt sources of income have reduced income. Then you’d have many of those looking for jobs in a shrinking economy. The end result here is also not pretty.
Tariffs and focusing on eliminating fraud in govt spending are the best and least painful path to fiscal responsibility
The other options to reduce the deficit are
Raise income taxes. Less fair than tariffs, adds burden to people who pay net amount of taxes which is less than 50% of the population. This would hurt economic growth and be the worst choice of all.
Next choice
Cut spending. This is the choice most people default to and on the surface seems most logical. However, take 1 trillion of current of govt spending out of the economy and watch it crash. This would require massive cuts to military, weakening our ability to project power and economic pain on private companies with defense contracts. You’d have to cut social security, hurting elderly. You’d have to cut welfare, hurting the poor. Retail and other areas of the economy would be hit hard as people who rely on govt sources of income have reduced income. Then you’d have many of those looking for jobs in a shrinking economy. The end result here is also not pretty.
Tariffs and focusing on eliminating fraud in govt spending are the best and least painful path to fiscal responsibility
Posted on 4/10/26 at 5:42 pm to roadGator
So you got nothing but some bravo sierra ai spewed. Clothing up 17.5 and furniture up 7.4, but inflation is around 4 year over year. That means other things had to have inflation rates below 4 for the average to be 4. Your numbers don't pass the sniff test. You have eyes and a brain, use them.
Posted on 4/10/26 at 7:26 pm to RollTide4547
I’m sorry you don’t like facts.
Posted on 4/10/26 at 7:40 pm to roadGator
quote:. And I'm sorry you can't think and reason.
I’m sorry you don’t like facts.
Posted on 4/11/26 at 12:31 pm to trinidadtiger
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The US now has 25% of the world economy and less than 10% is manufacturing.
That aint winning my friend.
The average factory worker in America makes $17 an hour.
Why is it that y'all think having an economy made up of $17 an hour jobs is the key to American economic dominance?
This isn't that difficult. Many economies around the world are less developed than ours. Pretty much all of them, actually, since we still have the largest economy in the world.
That means that a factory worker in China making $6 an hour or one in Mexico making $4 an hour is making a wage that is comparable to one making $17 an hour here in terms of the quality of life it affords them in the context of their economy, but the difference in labor costs for companies here is 3 to 4 times as much.
When labor is outsourced, everyone wins. Products are available for ALL Americans at a lower price and the unskilled Chinese/Mexican factory worker is making a living wage in the context of their economy.
We can't fill all of the $17 an hour positions we have available in the US right now.
How would flooding the economy with millions more help anything? Not to mention, now $17 an hour doesn't go nearly as far as it used to because now so much manufacturing is being done here at 3-4 times the labor costs that $17 an hour is now like making $15 an hour.
Why would you rather have that scenario than one in which we let unskilled workers in Mexico or China do unskilled labor and our economy revolves more around skilled labor, which is a service economy?
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