re: Matt Walsh on affordability

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He's saying no credible person is blaming Trump for this, but much of the affordability problem 100% comes back to the COVID checks and PPP loans, which Trump oversaw and signed into law.

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The inflation from Covid was over and Trump was righting the ship then he stupidly decided to go attack Iran

All current inflation is because of the war, and it will cost Trump and Republicans Congress. Not not only will democrats win, we will see many radical democratic socialists win. The pendulum has swung to the far left

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Please explain how tariffs effect the price of healthcare and insurance.

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I have before, more than once, and explaining it over and over gets tedious, so please pay attention this time.

We get the majority of plastics medical supplies and medical electronics equipment from overseas, mostly China. We're talking about everything from gowns and gloves and IV and surgical tubing and bags to x-ray and MRI and monitoring and even robotics surgery equipment and parts from overseas (China, mostly).

Studies have shown that specifically for medical products 56% of these additional costs are being passed on to hospitals and clinics (that's better than for all products btw, by a significant margin).

They then pass those costs along to consumers, which, for them, means mostly insurance companies. They negotiate higher rates, and they do so at least in part by showing the insurance companies the increased expenses for essential items like the ones I listed (and that's just off the top of my head, there's a lot more than that).

Not to mention, when auto and aircraft parts get more expensive because they are being tariffed, vehicle insurance goes up (for the same reason...it costs more to fix the vehicle, so insurance goes up). This means that between vehicle insurance plus the increased maintenance costs, shipping also increases, which is passed on to consumers, and that affects pretty much any product that isn't a digital file delivered online.

How about this one? Construction supplies are also heavily imported. Which means the cost of maintaining buildings (and houses) goes up. Which affects rent/prices. Again, pretty much anything that needs a brick and mortar building to do business. Hospitals and clinics definitely fall into that category.

So does the tariffed plastics, since they are used in so much packaging.

It's not hard to figure these things out once you accept the fact that Trump can't magically make money appear in the federal tariff account. If it's in there, it came from somewhere, and you can also no longer deny that it is Americans who are paying it since Trump lost the court case requiring money to be paid back. To Americans.

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Studies have shown that specifically for medical products 56% of these additional costs are being passed on to hospitals and clinics (that's better than for all products btw, by a significant margin).

They then pass those costs along to consumers, which, for them, means mostly insurance companies. They negotiate higher rates, and they do so at least in part by showing the insurance companies the increased expenses for essential items like the ones I listed (and that's just off the top of my head, there's a lot more than that).

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Would you say that these cost are more or less than what is passed on to paying customers/patients vs the huge number of illegals that instead of going to a GP, go to the emergency room and then don't pay their bill. Do you think hospitals write those losses off or pass them on? This all increases the cost of insurance as well since hospitals don't write off theses losses.

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How about this one? Construction supplies are also heavily imported. Which means the cost of maintaining buildings (and houses) goes up. Which affects rent/prices. Again, pretty much anything that needs a brick and mortar building to do business. Hospitals and clinics definitely fall into that category.

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Considering interest rates are much higher than recent history, do you think that that new home builds would be higher or lower if we didn't have tens of millions illegals that are renting apartments and houses, driving american citizens out of those rentals and requiring thousands and thousands more homes to house everyone??

What say we give the billionaires more tax breaks and let their record profits trickle down to us working class bubbas? That’s the way it works right baws?

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20 million Illegals imported grifting off of our system

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Has anyone quantified the net effect of them when factoring in their below market wage demands?

Where does the balance land when you take away their consumption of housing/healthcare/social services while also factoring in that all of the jobs they held now go to someone who will demand much higher wages while producing less.

I assume the balance is still a negative for america, but what is it?

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1) why are they all boomers?

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You tell me. This board is 99.999% people over 60, every single post reads like it. Ya'll have no idea how easy it is to spot you, just from the way you type.

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Ya'll have no idea how easy it is to spot you, just from the way you type.

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I'm younger than 60, but trust me, it's just as easy to identify the young people on here by the way they type. Incorrect or absent grammar/punctuation is one easy way.

Speaking of which, the apostrophe in y'all goes after the y. An apostrophe in this context signifies the conjunction of two words, so it goes between the letters used from each. (I'm sure it was just a typo, I'm just returning your generational asshattery with my own.).

It is also true that prices will not return to pre COVID levels without a very painful depression style deflationary cycle. Meaning demand has to fall because people can’t afford stuff.

Affordability is a catchphrase for those suffering from affluenza and a reality check at the same time.

They want to have DoorDash 3 times a week then dine out 3 times a week. They want Starbucks everyday. They thought. 3% mortgage were real and not a construct by Powell and his quantitative easing at the direction of the Dems.

The reality check is 1 3% mortgage rates were fake and never coming back, 2 no one in history has afforded a personal food service like today’s young people. 3 needs and wants are different…….