We know that Trump intends to - or so people hope - that he abolishes the income tax and hopes to raise funds via tariffs instead. It's protectionism essentially. The costs do find themselves falling onto the consumer regardless, but I think ascribing his motivation as being malicious is based on nothing. Tariffs aren't great but you can see why they're being implemented. It's probably easier to remove a tariff than it is to introduce an entirely new tax, thus if he accomplishes abolishing income tax then tariffs might only be a short-term problem.
Except he hasn't abolished the income tax. What the people hope is not what Trump is doing. They hoped he would lower grocery prices. That didn't happen. The opposite did.
So far we've only seen him saving the state money via DOGE. If he's somehow making money off of saving the state billions, that's a worthwhile trade. Placing Elon as the central figure of the presidency, as if Trump's decisions are just to hide Elon's actions, make me feel that you've subscribed to the belief that Elon is the actual president as being touted by liberals.
A broken clock can be right twice a day. Also, saving the state money? At this point, this whole administration is going to cost more money. It's just that the common taxpayer will feel all the burn while Trump and Elon won't feel a thing.
America has stuff like OSHA, no? There's a minimum level of safety and workplace conditions that employers need to adhere to that stop them being sweatshop-tier like in China. And people, I feel, are less reluctant to take low-paying jobs since those jobs don't provide wages to cover increase living costs, higher rents, and have no future tied to them. Maybe once immigration figures are down and there's a worker deficit these jobs might be more attractive as wages might increase as a result.
If Elon had his way, OSHA wouldn't exist. He's been on record as trying to remove all sorts of safety regulations in his Tesla factories. The Cybertruck he designed had all sorts of safety flaws, from a pedal that can get stuck on the "floor it" position, to no crumple zones.
Also, these corporations would rather swallow bullets than pay their workers a living wage.
Any idiot who thinks they can get living wages from corporations by expelling foreign workers clearly is stuck in the Middle Ages. This isn't the 1400s where the local lord has no choice but to employ local peasants, so when the Black Death killed a third of the peasantry, the remaining peasants got a wage bump. The economy has evolved since then. Corporations can not only outsource jobs, but entire consumer markets as well. China and Europe's consumer markets can be just as lucrative, if not moreso, than America's. So if they can't sell in America because they outsource, so be it. They'll just sell to other places across the world. Besides, it's not like Americans are getting any richer. Not with this administration in charge, anyways. The rising prices of goods thanks to all these tariff wars means Americans have less expendable cash to spend on corporate slop.
This is based on what exactly? Didn't public schools exist prior to the department of education? Also isn't the encouragement of people having kids also made on the promise that immigration numbers will be decreasing hence the increase in jobs, decrease in workers, lead to a natural incline in wages that make having a kid more viable? And hey, if what you say comes to pass, education does become privatised, hopefully Americans will then be left in a situation where they're also financially stable enough that they can afford to put their kid through quality private education.
Again, this is you hinging your hopes on things that probably won't exist. The increase in immigration coincided with Americans discovering the birth control pill and having less kids as a result. If they were going to have more kids themselves, there wouldn't have been a need for more immigrants.
