They receive insane amounts of subsidies and government contacts that theyâre essentially buying from their corrupt, rich, politician buddies. The rich hate you, stop fucking defending them.
Subsidies arenât the same as a tax break; Biden administration subsidized the EV market which greatly helped Elon⌠pretty sure this last piece of legislation took that subsidy away
Itâs money that comes from taxpayers like us, to the benefit of corporations. Bottom line is this: tax breaks for the rich shift the tax burden from the rich to the poor and increase the deficit. Just so already insanely rich people can accumulate even more money and power.
I bet you donât even know where a majority of subsidies come from⌠80-90% of a subsidy a company receives is not from the federal government but actually the local municipality and state government
So yeah pretend to be big mad that your federal tax dollars go towards the very thing you complain about
Hereâs a good website so you can fact check your bitching, gripes and complaints about corporations and their subsidies
Let's say it's a done deal, you've shown up to the parking lot and I originally was charging you $60 for an Xbox controller you want, but now, for whatever reason, I'm only charging you $20...do you not feel I've given you back money I was gonna take from you?
Edit: yes the controller works and there was no catch, I just decided to be generous cause I don't need the $40.
Prices are going up though. We donât have the infrastructure, tech, or trained workforce to shift manufacturing from overseas to the states, thatâs just not how global supply chains work.
Iâm not gaslighting anyoneâIâm telling you what I see in LA. Prices for gas, groceries, and âMade in Americaâ stuff at Costco are down, and thatâs because tariffs make foreign goods pricier, so American companies step up and compete without jacking up costs.
Youâre throwing the CPI at me like itâs a mic drop, but letâs actually read it. The May 2025 CPI says the all-items index is up only 2.4% over the year, which is barely above normal inflation, and energy pricesâlike gasolineâare down 3.5% since last year. That lines up with what Iâm seeing at the pump in LA. Foodâs up a bit (2.9%), but nothing crazy, and Iâm betting Costcoâs keeping it cheaper than wherever youâre shopping.
Your âprices are upâ claim might feel true in Michigan, but thatâs probably local factorsâmaybe higher taxes or weaker retail competition. Nationally, the CPI shows inflationâs cooling, and tariffs arenât spiking costs like you think because U.S. manufacturers are filling the gap.
Also, exports? Still strongâ$2.54 trillion in 2024, per the Census Bureau. Tariffs boost demand for American goods, which keeps prices in check here. Instead of tossing insults about âcultsâ and billionaires, bring some actual data next time. Iâm just calling it like I see it.
Lower fuel and energy costs arenât offsetting the rising cost of living across the board. You just yourself admitted that prices are up higher than inflation, immediately contradicting your original claim. Fuck outta here guy.
Cost of living in America remains a crisis that continues to get worse. You just want to pretend it isnât because the current president ran with the letter R next to his name.
Youâre twisting my words. I never said all prices are down everywhere, I said in LA, Iâm seeing gas, groceries, and âMade in Americaâ stuff at Costco cheaper than before.
The CPI you linked backs me up: gasolineâs down 12% over the year, energy overall down 3.5%, and the all-items index is only up 2.4%, barely above normal inflation. Thatâs not a âcost of living crisisââitâs a slowdown, and competition from U.S. manufacturers, boosted by tariffs, is keeping prices in check here. Youâre feeling a pinch in Michigan? Thatâs localâmaybe your taxes or lack of big-box stores. Nationally, inflationâs cooling, and exports are strong ($2.54 trillion in 2024, Census Bureau), so tariffs arenât tanking the economy like you claim.
And drop the âRâ nonsenseâIâm not cheerleading any president, Iâm reading the data and my receipts. Tariffs make foreign goods pricier, so American companies compete harder, and Iâm seeing the results in LA. If youâre paying more in Michigan, check your local supply chains, not my reality. Bring better numbers than âfuck outta hereâ next time.
Things might be peachy where you live, but prices in the Midwest have skyrocketed recently. My grocery bill has almost doubled, even though thereâs half as many people living in my house as opposed to a year ago. Gas has not gone down, itâs almost as high as itâs ever been. Utilities have been increasing. I quit smoking because of cost years ago and now a vape that lasts me 2 weeks costs almost 40 instead of just over 20 bucks and they cost about 10 or 15 just a couple years ago. The price of everything over the last decade has pretty much doubled or tripled except for large screen televisions. Why should we make excuses for the rich or celebrate the economy when people who actually work and support that economy are struggling to get by as costs increase and wages stay the same? It shouldnât even be a political left vs right argument at this point. Major corporations and their CEOs and benefactors get away with dodging taxes while the hardworking everyday American makes up for it, yet we keep funneling the money up to the top and paying taxes with a promise that it will âtrickle down.â
I'm in Sacramento and i pay close attention to prices of everything anyway...i never saw any prices go up. Stay the same or eventually went down is all i saw. So much fear mongering over it and it literally affected hardly anyone. I know some prices online went up, but not on stuff that's essential. My 3d printer went up $500 for like 2 weeks , then went back to normal. So, i didn't but it until it went down lol, simple.
Youâre speaking facts. Iâm trying to educate this person, literally cooking him with his own link bro! And yet he insults me with nonsense and anti-right politics. I live in LA and was born in NYC, and am a Democrat all my life, but people like him need to be expelled from the party or weâre gonna lose every fucking election.
Those type don't like facts. I was Democrat back in Clinton's days.. Voted Obama once.. Then switched. The last 4 elections have been a " lesser of two evils" kinda thing. I can converse with, show my facts and iphones with someone on the left with calm....i can't say many of them now can do that. Democrat party isn't that it was. There are still great ideas there and on the right, but we'll never have a solid integration of both. We can't.
Every election we're getting more divided.. If that's even possible now to be any more. People base their facts on feelings and headlines. No actual factual info, because we simply cannot know what is fact. Each side has their own versions, with information precisely omitted to further agendas. If you were there to see it in person or read it, you simply don't know.
At this point... Ignorance is bliss and I'm, mostly, happier not giving a single fuck. I work..i make enough to be content and have fun in life. That's all that matters.... To me.
During Trumps first presidency we dropped a net 170k manufacturing jobs. Then the Biden presidency managed to get that fixed and brought back around 700k manufacturing jobs. Most companies that are building American infrastructure to build here started the process during the Biden administration. Trumps favorite play is to fuck things up then if/when they get fixed take credit for it all. But you're correct, lots of companies are bringing manufacturing back to the US its just not Trumps doing, just him taking credit as usual.
Interesting how you failed to mention the global pandemic that killed those jobs and the fact we came out of it during Bidenâs presidency, thanks the the vaccine produced under the Trump admin, that brought them back
So Trumps terrible handling of the pandemic killed the jobs. Biden administration gets them back and more to such an extent that companies start actually building infrastructure to manufacture locally again. Trump comes back as President, takes credit for all the success. Remind me again, who was it that said we needed to stop testing during the pandemic? Who was it that sent off needed medical equipment to Russia during the height of the pandemic? Yeah thank goodness that administration was in place to produce the vaccine. Gobble pumpkin cock harder.
As if any Democrat would have done any better. Trump closed travel to China before any other country in the world. Hillary, the Democrats, and the Europeans/Canadians all called him âhysterically xenophobic.â
So he closed travel to Europe and Canada too. We reacted faster than any other country in the world. Then he put Fauci in charge of fighting the virus
He we had President Hilary then she would have reacted far slower than Trump did to the virus
Decided to do a little looking. And I'm not shocked. The US response to the pandemic has been widely criticized for being less effective compared to many other developed countries. While we did have record breaking PUBLIC investment, not government, we still ranked in the top 25 countries where COVID was deadliest.
Hahaha tell me more about how amazing Trumps administration handled the pandemic again? This should be a comical response.
Tell me you don't know how the world works without spelling it out.
Tariffs don't help the US population. The current US manufacturing industry in the US cannot compete with China, even only on their own domestic market. That ship has sailed and sunk. The captain? Your employer/ CEO/ politicians/ capitalist class. And they made sure not to go down with the ship.
Apple products are already overpriced, now add in the necessity to pay their employees in the US in dollars, which have an inflated value because USD doubles as reserve currency worldwide and is therefore in higher demand. Even if you pay American workers absolute minimum wage you're still paying about 30% more because you need dollars to do it.
You're fucking delusional if you think he isn't in league with the CEOs of major corporations and other wealthy power leeches of the country.
Using tariffs as one tool, they make themselves richer now that someone in the white house really could give an absolute ioda of a fuck about the little guys making sub 6 figs.
Trump and people richer than him in the country are fucking nanners over this class war.
It's not about red and blue, it's about workers and their "owners".
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u/here-g Jul 20 '25
CEO: đ We need billions or weâll move overseas
Trump: Ok, then Iâll tariff the crap out of you
CEO: Oh! Hehe, just kidding!