re: Matt Walsh on affordability

Republicans should lean into self reliance and preaching financial literacy. That is more compassionate than promising handouts and dependency. Let the communists do that.

I don’t see Republicans opening state owned grocery stores but maybe I missed that.

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If Trump “lit a fire” it was probably a very appropriate one. You can argue the wisdom of the covid lockdowns all you want (I was against them) but they were happening regardless of the president.

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How pervasive would lockdowns have been if fedgov hadn't funded them?

Where lockdowns were enacted, how long would they have lasted if fedgov hadn’t funded them?

Lockdowns were economic abortion and Trump was stupid to have greased the skids for Democrats in flooding the country with COVID dollars.

Yeah, because Trump has an economic policy of inflation while claiming he is lowering taxes.

This is how you are taxed. The real budget is government spending and there is no such thing as an unbalanced budget.

The deep state gets all the newly created money; we get higher cost of living.

You think killing people is free?

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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.

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The problem is all the GOPe doesn’t think all this stuff being made overseas isn’t a problem and hasn’t been an issue for the last 30 years

You can find one of these for all of them. If anyone on this board mattered enough to be worth the effort, you could find it for lots of them too.

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did any of you actually read Walsh's post? he's not blaming Trump for prices.

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No credible person is claiming that Trump caused these price surges. You don't have to disgrace yourself by denying the reality in front of your face just to prove your loyalty to Trump

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The reason burritos cost $20 in blue state hellholes is directly because they have unsustainable minimum wage requirements. The reason energy costs more in blue hellholes is because of their Green New Deal climate and regulatory burdens. Most of the “affordability” issues directly trace back to the radical left. But keep blaming Trump and Republicans.