Can you afford to vote for Trump?

Yeah, a lot of Project 2025, like mass deportations, is stuff that Trump has already said he is going to do. And a lot of it was written by people who worked in the first Trump administration and will be appointed to his second administration. It's definitely a road map for Trump's second term.

 

Let’s force a run on the banks baybee.

Smart policy… if one were literally trying to destroy the financial system.

 

Also, eliminating funding and protections for special education programs. Way to throw your children and grandchildren under the bus.

 

Let's back up. You are one of those people who state things as facts when you really are insinuating or just flat-out being dishonest. Very much like the media you consume.

1. CBS lacks credibility, and the article provides very few facts.

2. Trump states he didn't know much about P2025 in your article. Maybe he does, maybe he does not. The fact is you and CBS do not know. In the video you shared, Trump talks about Tom Homan and border security. That was it. It has nothing to do with taxes or hiring 30 other people from the Heritage Foundation. Of course, he is going to work with TH on the border. They worked together the first go-around, and TH is a badass.

3. You mention $6,600 taxing couples to help fund immigration concentration camps. Huh? To quote your article: "If the Child Tax Credit were also eliminated, they would pay an additional $6,600 compared with today's tax system, Duke said." "If" is the keyword there, and there is no mention of immigration camps. This is how the media works. Other key phrases in the article: "Trump hasn't yet proposed any concrete tax plans" - "One likely scenario if Trump is reelected is that Republican lawmakers would extend the TJCA's tax cuts,".

Nothing here is concrete, and most everything is a guess. Guesses that you state as fact. The fact is low and middle-wage earners have confidence in Trump. I will also share that most Americans take no comfort in the fact that the USA has the lowest inflation of the G7. Those dipshits are screwed with the way they have handled immigration.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/16/business/economy-trump-voters/index.html

 

Most of these seem like they’d be crazy unpopular policies, not just among “lefties” but more generally. Like… what working class blue collar worker wants to “end the FDIC” or end overtime. It’s quite bizarre.

 

One of the few Trump cabinet members who endorsed him and is, this, likely to return, proposes devaluing the dollar purposefully. This is actually utilizing policy to cause inflation directly by making imports relatively more expensive in order to boost exports to countries who won't be experiencing this inflation. I wonder what those posters so upset by inflation will say about one of Trump's chief economic advisors literally proposing inflation as a policy goal.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/15/devaluing-dollar-trump-trade-war-00152009

BTW, before the "never heard of him" responses start (although I suspect the response will be crickets from those folks so upset by inflation), JD Vance supports this policy too:

 

A better question for this thread is whether Democracy can afford Trump. And that answer would be a big hell no.

 

You sure?

Does Project 2025 eliminate overtime pay? | verifythis.com

 

That link actually backs it all up.

It claims that it would be required to pay OT on “the Sabbath”, but would give more flexibility to employers to not pay OT by doing it over 2 weeks or even a full month, rather than determining it weekly.

No way that works out for the worker, especially ones with deadlines and such. It means the employer can grind employees with 60 or 80 hour work weeks to hit a deadline, then effectively furlough them the next week or several weeks to avoid ever paying OT. What employee would want that “flexibility”??) Keep in mind this would be people paid by the hour. Mid-level managers and above are typically salaried anyway.

 

It’s interesting that some of the people who criticize Trump for the loss of jobs at the end of his term, are the same people who fully supported lockdowns that led to those job losses.

 

Not sure that’s true. Check out the rates of the various G7 countries.

Inflation and interest rates tracker: see how your country compares

This might have a paywall but I got in earlier.

G7 inflation rates 2024 | Statista

Edit: here is a screenshot of the Statista page

 

Well said, Tj.