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Should be a wild four years.

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Bog-standard Poster said:
I agree with this, without question, the rich will get richer and they should be taxed more.

This bit is just retarded though. I don't give a fuck about any of those people. I don't take sides in a game where the teams' only objective is to take turns shitting on the crowd.
Debt is an invention of money, which is a fabrication and invented as a form of control. Unfortunately, the original idea of keeping people happy with finances/financial control, has been left to successive retards who don't know what they're doing.

I know you want to spin it as hate on some flavour of politician but just stop. The division of the people because of the colour of a tie they wear is one of the reasons why we're in this shitty position.
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For a guy who says that shit, you do nothing but whiteknight Trump and other Republicans. Trump is going to cause your groceries to go up 25% in a few months and you're defending it and celebrating it, all because your waifu did it. Trump plans to gut medicaid so that billionaires can get yet another tax cut. Stop it with that shit if you're gonna claim such a thing

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Mein negro several nations are already saying they'll lower their own tariffs (one of his goals) and several megacorps like NVidia and Apple have plans to open up domestic production of goods (another of his goals). That's the point of tariffs, it's a little pain now for stability later. America was at its strongest economically, militarily and culturally when we had strong production capabilities and before we began letting every other backwater shithole extort us and benefit from our benevolence.
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America was at its best when corporations had no incentive to ship jobs overseas, when they were paying corporate tax rates of 90%. Instead Trump has you so brainwashed that you think his retarded tariffs are going to fix things and that you paying 25% more for stuff is a good thing :story: And Trump is going to make it worse by cutting taxed for corporations even more and even more tax cuts for the rich.

And no, those companies are not going to build factories here and countries are doing the opposite and increasing their tariffs because of your waifu. This is going to be a lot of pain for even more pain later.

You need to stop simping for the rich. It's hysterical that you think billionaires should get richer at your expense :story:
 
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In terms of paying 35% more for groceries, my supermarket helpfully labels their fruit and veg with the country of origin so in preparation all I did was skip the broccoli in the "product of Mexico" box and grab the broccoli in the "product of USA" box. It hasn't even been that much of a price difference. It isn't noticeable.
The nearby farmers market is also opening soon and that's meat, eggs, honey, mushrooms, bread, dairy, fruit, and veg all produced within the state. Tariff free.
I'll also be buying a cow share to cover my meat needs for the next six months. Great value and great quality. I can even drop by the ranch to go meet who's going to be going on my table in a month.
If you have one, check out your local farmers market kiwis! It's patriotic and delicious!
 
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marvlouslie said:
Over the last 20 years or so, I've heard the repeated line, "Social Security will go bankrupt in 8 years", but somehow it's still here and it's still being funded. The fear mongering and retardation over Social Security and Medicaid serves no one. All it does is freak people out (though, then again, that is the goal, isn't it?).
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It can't go 'bankrupt', the value you get is just inflated away. And that's happened for damn sure.
 
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marvlouslie said:
Over the last 20 years or so, I've heard the repeated line, "Social Security will go bankrupt in 8 years", but somehow it's still here and it's still being funded. The fear mongering and retardation over Social Security and Medicaid serves no one. All it does is freak people out (though, then again, that is the goal, isn't it?).
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It would be easier to dismiss if Trump's budget didn't include cutting medicaid so that billionaires can get another tax break. And you retards are all for it because Trump is doing it. It's hysterical. Trump could piss in your mouth and you'd celebrate it
 
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Hollywood Hulk Hogan said:
It would be easier to dismiss if Trump's budget didn't include cutting medicaid so that billionaires can get another tax break. And you retards are all for it because Trump is doing it. It's hysterical. Trump could piss in your mouth and you'd celebrate it
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Billionaires are losing billions today in stock indexes you faggot.
 
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grocerygoblin said:
Alright selling all my stock, where should I put everything now
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Don't try and time the market. If you can't find a good company, but it into a broad market index fund and keep some in bonds and rebalance regularly. For example, 80% stock and 20% bond. Then in 6 months, re-balance so your ratio is 80/20 again (so if stocks are higher, sell stocks and buy bonds and vice-versa).

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Billionaires are losing billions today in stock indexes you faggot.
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I know reading is difficult for you given your intellectual disability, but they have enough where it won't matter. They're losing a bit but will make it up by buying other shit cheaper because everything is tanking and will get even worse. Plus, your waifu wants to give them a tax break at your expense so they'll have even more cash to buy low with.

Why do you white knight billionaires and demand that your money should go to them? It's really weird, little guy
 
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Hollywood Hulk Hogan said:
Actually I am doing okay. I sold most of my stocks when I realized that your waifu had an unhealthy obsession with tariffs. I got a half mill in cash just waiting to buy in
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You thinking of buying in tomorrow or waiting for next week after anticipating a 2nd crash?

I don't agree. We're already paying out the ass in groceries. All this will do is cause some stability. I don't think we'll see that much change past the next week or two. I don't think prices will go down too much. I think what you'll rather see is a correction on wage fronts and the major expenses such as cars and homes slowly begin to fall. We're using a lot of anticipatory models for these things and people have had a lot of time to make adjustments to handle what's expected to come.
 
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marvlouslie said:
Over the last 20 years or so, I've heard the repeated line, "Social Security will go bankrupt in 8 years", but somehow it's still here and it's still being funded. The fear mongering and retardation over Social Security and Medicaid serves no one. All it does is freak people out (though, then again, that is the goal, isn't it?).
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The math is unavoidable, because there are too many olds and not enough youngs. At some point, the already-issued bonds run out, and it won't be able to issue checks for the full amount promised. Congress will have to act, or there will be an immediate, across-the-board benefits cut. That point was estimated to be around 2035 some years ago.
 
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Amelia Troonheart said:
In terms of paying 35% more for groceries, my supermarket helpfully labels their fruit and veg with the country of origin so in preparation all I did was skip the broccoli in the "product of Mexico" box and grab the broccoli in the "product of USA" box. It hasn't even been that much of a price difference. It isn't noticeable.
The nearby farmers market is also opening soon and that's meat, eggs, honey, mushrooms, bread, dairy, fruit, and veg all produced within the state. Tariff free.
I'll also be buying a cow share to cover my meat needs for the next six months. Great value and great quality. I can even drop by the ranch to go meet who's going to be going on my table in a month.
If you have one, check out your local farmers market kiwis! It's patriotic and delicious!
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REEEE you can't support America. That's illegal and against the rules based international order you nazi bigot. You're putting ling ling out a job at the chinese sweatshop. Millions of jobs worldwide will be lost if America reshores it's industry.
 
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Hollywood Hulk Hogan said:
I know reading is difficult for you given your intellectual disability, but they have enough where it won't matter. They're losing a bit but will make it up by buying other shit cheaper because everything is tanking and will get even worse. Plus, your waifu wants to give them a tax break at your expense so they'll have even more cash to buy low with.

Why do you white knight billionaires and demand that your money should go to them? It's really weird, little guy
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Look I know trump BTFO your portfolio today but it's casino. You get what you deserve.
 
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Kind of tired hearing people complain only about how the US is going to lose/losing all of the tariff wars. Just like covid, suddenly everyone is an economic expert with precognitive abilities. I don't pretend to know what will happen but do know it's critical to bring things back inshore and that America deserves true fair trade instead of being taken advantage of.
Foreign and internal investments have been made to manufacture in the US and several countries already blinked first. A lot of these complaints are from people unhappy about higher prices now but bizarrely I see a lot of dooming about in-progress investments too, such as claiming US based factories won't be clean enough to actually produce chips (??). It's much more concerning these efforts are uprooted and destroyed forever by the powers that be, especially if the progs regain authority after Trump
Teaching kids to not eat candy now so they get extra candy later was a lesson for toddlers, adults apparently need to relearn it, as well as the pain of growing trees whose shade you won't enjoy.
 
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