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Americans, frustrated with high prices despite a strong economy, voted for change with Donald Trump’s election. Trump promises to reverse Biden-era policies, vowing steep tariffs, tax cuts, and mass deportations.

Economists warn his plans could worsen inflation, increase the federal deficit, and destabilize growth. The Peterson Institute predicts Trump's tariffs could drive up costs for American consumers, while deportations could shrink GDP by $5.1 trillion.

His proposed tax cuts could add $4.1 trillion to the deficit, while economists question his willingness to address fiscal imbalances through spending cuts.

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[-] Zier@fedia.io 64 points 3 weeks ago

Economic change will come. Food +15-35% Imported goods +20-45% Taxes will rise Wages will stagnate Unions will be busted Social services will be discontinued

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 9 points 3 weeks ago

If tariffs are instated, unions will gain a huge amount of leverage in those industries domestically, even with a hostile NLRB.

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You think fascists aren't going to criminalize unions? The constitution, rule of law, precedent... None of these arbitrary barriers mean anything to tyrants, especially tyrants with no checks ave balances; commanding the most advanced war machine in history.

All of this has happened before, and ~100 million people were murdered or killed. That's the equivalent of 400-500 million today. Europe and Asia were leveled. Nobody had nukes until the final 2 months, and those were all of the nukes in existence. Today there are several thousand.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 5 points 2 weeks ago

A general strike is basically the only check left, and it's definitely not going to be pretty. But it's not like there's anything else you can count on, the courts are in his pocket, police love Trump, Congress will enable him, so it's unions or there's nothing else left.

[-] twistypencil@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Except they won't be able to exercise that leverage for years, bringing manufacturing home is not just flipping a light switch. We don't even have basics

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, of course. Some industries were already starting the onshoring though, and there's going to be a ton of lobbying by industries to actually not implement those tariffs, so we're not even sure this is going to happen.

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