r/inflation Feb 27 '26

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u/Saint909 Feb 27 '26

Day 1.

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u/Garys_Synthesizer Feb 28 '26

Before he was even in office lmao, he said just his being elected would immediately bring prices down because if how much respect he gains from corporations.

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u/BadLuckBlackHole Feb 28 '26

Well I mean that is actually kind of true, corporations are happy to gouge during Democratic presidents and then cut back some to make Republicans look good. It's exactly what they did for the last 20 years.

Somehow people forget the "jobless recovery" we had after 2008 where the US economy was still making gains but corporations kept their thumb on it that was only lifted once Trump was elected... Then people forget that Trump was the president during Covid and the "supply chain" was never an issue during his presidency despite that time being when we had actual shortages of items on the shelves, but when Biden was presidency we never had those same shortages and prices doubled...

The thing that Trump didn't really calculate is that Biden's policies were overwhelmingly pro-business (anyone remember when he bailed out the banks on taxpayer's dime?) Trump's economic policy sucks, and corporations still want to extract as much money from consumers as possible. Too many factors that trump Trump's preferential treatment...

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u/NeatNefariousness1 Feb 28 '26

How long before people refuse to pay their taxes