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.
He has only been president for 5 weeks.
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.
How is the administration going to cost more money when he is cutting down the overall size of government? And it's not just the taxpayer feeling the pain of living costs, even those who do not pay taxes feel the pain due to the overall cost of goods increasing. But with the abolishment of income tax - which has yet to arrive, but may still within the year - the tax payer will feel an overall decrease. And, if inflation stops hitting as hard, people may see a decrease in the cost of everyday goods as well.
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. 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.
Regarding the first half, Elon
doesn't get his way because he's not the government. Elon wants to bring in infinity Indians, a sentiment he shared with Vivek, but the latter was fired from his position at DOGE due to that sentiment, so clearly Trump doesn't share it. Elon has one job - trim government spending. If Trump beings floating the idea of disbanding OSHA, minimum wage and serfdom, I'll don a dunce cap on my avatar.
Corporations won't
willingly increase wages if they don't have to, that's true (Dodge v Ford helped cement that sentiment) but that's why you
force the conditions where they'll want to because it'd benefit them. In theory, if you make it more costly to manufacture abroad, harder to sell from abroad, but the market is too large to abandon, they'll have no choice but to create jobs and manufacture domestically. If there's a lot of jobs around but few people due to low immigration figures, then they'll want to make their positions more attractive. That's the intent with tariffs and decreasing immigration. It's a
long term plan. Appealing only to people in the here and now has lead to long term consequences the world over. And if people naturally have more money to spend due to paying less in taxes, it means they have more disposable income to spend on goods that corporations both foreign and domestic will want to peddle here. You're underestimating America's value.
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.
'Probably' - Have faith my dude. Be optimistic about things outside your control, otherwise you'll just be pissed off and angry and have no way to fix it, which is a mindset that is entirely self-inflicted.
