Besides blanket tariffs that make everything more expensive, letting Americans buy less stuff, there will be job losses from retaliation, and less money to buy other stuff.

There is unlikely to be mass reindustrialization of the US in the face of low demand, and not being exportable products due to retaliatory tariffs. Deporting 10m people will harm housing and banking and tax revenue and other demand for stuff.

  • magnetosphere
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    192 months ago

    Until Trump, Republican higher-ups didn’t really want to eliminate immigration for exactly this reason. They wanted them around as scapegoats and cheap labor. If he wins, I wonder what Trump would actually end up doing.

  • @Buffalox
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    Don’t worry about it, tax cuts will compensate, so it will only be a problem if you are not in the 1%. /s

    • @[email protected]OP
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      And banks losing money on housing, has never hurt banks before. The banks will be protected too. Thank god, our banks will be saved again.

      • @Buffalox
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        62 months ago

        Also we will easily get the economy going again by lowering minimum wages.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          62 months ago

          I hear slavery improves productivity a whole bunch! It’s never clear the period “again” makes reference to in MAGA

  • IninewCrow
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    122 months ago

    Journalist reports that he sees a man holding a flame thrower threatening to burn everything down may only cause minor heat damage.

  • Flying Squid
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    No see you don’t understand. A 1500% tariff on everything means the money trickles down because something about the national debt that I’m sure figures in there somewhere.

  • @paddirn
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    32 months ago

    So will house prices go down?

    • @[email protected]OP
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      deportations would have that effect. More empty housing.

      The concept of a plan for mass deportations is I think the red states volunteering to pay for it all. Due process would make it expensive, and back up the courts to prevent other prosecutions in those states. If it is just round up brown people in trucks and drive them to Tijuana, then it could be cheap and quick.

    • @[email protected]
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      02 months ago

      During depressions the rich stand to lose a lot more than the poor. And if there’s a depression I’m sure a lot of companies will start offloading their properties.

  • @ikidd
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    22 months ago

    Not to minimize the damage that Trump would do to the country, but if you expanded the usefulness of what a media outlet “analyst” has to say tenfold, it would still rattle around in a gnat’s asshole.