A new Financial Times/Michigan Ross School of Business poll finds more Americans trust Kamala Harris to handle the economy than Donald Trump, 42% to 41%.
Also interesting: “Fully 60% of those surveyed said Harris should either break completely from the president’s economic policies or ‘make major changes’ to his platform.”
Kamala Harrisanyone is more trusted than Donald Trumpon the US economyTL;DR
I have paid more in taxes thanks to Trump’s handouts to the wealthy. Also, he wants to INCREASE TAXES AND ELIMINATE TAX DEDUCTIONS for all people earning under $70,000- $100,000 per year. This is directly from Project 2025. This fact alone should sink his campaign but it’s one of many aspects that aren’t being covered by the media. This pisses me off and for as much as Americans hem and haw about taxes, there aren’t enough people outraged about it.
You and me man…I used to be able to deduct expenses as a contractor…now I just pay 4-6 more in taxes a year.
That’s bullshit. I hope this changes for all of us when his “tax cuts” expire.
I hope they fix the botched tax law trump passed that further squeeze the poor and middle class. It expires next year.
https://www.investopedia.com/taxes/trumps-tax-reform-plan-explained/
This is directly from Project 2025. This fact alone should sink his campaign but it’s one of many aspects that aren’t being covered by the media
There’s so much evil shit in Project 2025 that the regressive taxes are the least of it. But yeah, might be worth focusing on it to target the “what about the economy?” types.
How many casinos did Harris run into bankruptcy?
How many casino did trump run into bankruptcy?
We cannot stress enough that Donald Trump built a money siphon and it failed. A casino is just a fucking money siphon, and he couldn’t even make money with that. Like. That’s what a shit businessperson he is. And people think his incredible business acumen gives him insights into how macroeconomies work (which are DIFFERENT from microeconomies, by the way). Like… This is some dumbass bullshit that if you wrote it and handed it to your publisher, the editor would send you a note back saying they thought you should revisit this plot point because it’s not believable.
His sole source of income that’s legal is licensing the name that his father built the reputation of. Every single venture he has attempted on his own has lost money. He’s absolutely terrible at business. His father was a giant piece of shit, but you can’t argue that he wasn’t a highly successful slum lord (and tax dodger). Donald learned nothing from his father except maybe the tax fraud.
Trump Would Be Richer If He Had Just Invested His Inheritance Into The S&P 500
And don’t forget, this is based on forbes estimates. He has consistently lied about his net worth
I wonder how this factoid holds up after Truth Social IPO. On the one hand, it skyrocketed because people could use it to launder money to him but on the other hand, it’s not liquid and could easily tank. Iirc it’s the only thing that may have put him above a billion net worth, at least during it’s height.
AFAIK he owned a large majority but was contractually unable to sell until some specific date, and since the IPO, the price has collapsed. But appears to now be trending back up
I believe it’s still worth like $2b to him and be can sell in October.
Well, at this point he managed to con his way into theoretical billions by taking truth social public and getting rubes and money launderers to buy shares.
I need to add to your comment. He was bailed out of bankrupting a casino by Wilbur Ross. Who is Wilbur Ross? Wilbur Ross is a coal baron that Dementia DonOLD picked for our secretary of commerce.
Do you all think he got that job by his qualifications or the fact he bailed Mr 34 felonies out? We’d all know this if there was an actual news program out there that wasn’t using their position to push the right.
How the fuck could anyone trust a republican on the economy? These cunts have been preaching bullshit economics since the fucking 80s. Where the fucking trickle down, cunts?
It’s been going on way longer than that; they were calling it “horse-and-sparrow economics” since all the way back in the 19th Century.
TIL, thanks.
True, but there was a kind of Keynesian consensus for a while until libertarian thinktanks (and their media cheerleaders) started infesting the Republican party.
As usual, “the economy” can be replaced with “rich people’s yacht money”
Right there in the name - trickle.
I’m sorry, did you want a lot?
#Voteblue
Much longer than that. They used to call it horse and sparrow economics. Back in the 1800s
The trickle down has always been them pissing on you and telling you it’s raining.
And every president since the 80s has practiced Reaganomics
If you’re a straight white christian neurotypical with a family, the additional discrimination employers will be allowed to do against people besides you means you’ll have an easier time getting promoted or getting a better job. Disallowing discrimination in the workplace gives a wider range of people a chance to potentially compete for your job. That or “I’m scared of stoners/gays/transgenders and want to protect my family by voting for the party that will force people to stop being stoners/gay/transgender” are 2 popular reasons non-rich people choose to support republicans.
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Consumer confidence is always a lagging indicator.
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What most Americans know about economic policy could be written on a scrap of paper.
Nonetheless, this is a BFD.
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Minor note, he recently said the president should be able to tell the Fed what interest rates are. He won’t have to do much raging, he can just tell them money is free for Vance and his venture capitalist friends.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/08/trump-fed-powell-bank-2024-elections-00173299
That’s pretty accurate except you went way too long without wandering off on some other topic.
I trust a potatoe (I know what I did there, I’m old) a fuckton more that that orange shit gibbon
For some references to send to people (Though note they were written when Biden was in the race, so reference Biden’s policies)
16 Nobel Prize-winning economists say Trump policies will fuel inflation
Many CEOs fear a second Trump term would be worse than the first
Trump’s Plans Stir Fears for Fed Independence, Inflation
(And these are all either center or center-right leaning sources critiquing Trump’s economic policies or lack thereof)
Reported as a duplicate, but I’m not seeing one. Leaving this one here for now.
Ffs I reported a duplicate when the same article was posted 5 minutes after this one. It must have been deleted anyway, since I can’t see it any more.
Yeah, sorted by subject I only see this one.
I would trust Kamala Harris more to tell me when Trump was speaking than even hearing the words come from that lying tangerine’s mouth
“on the economy” LOL
how about “on literally everything”
It’s basically contrasting with Biden, who was less trusted on the economy than Trump. And that is likely because the average person seems to be utterly incapable of understanding that a president isn’t a god that can snap their fingers and resolve global economic issues, and so they think that since interest rates were lower when Trump was in power, he must be some economic genius.
I find it funny that CEOs fear a second trump term. Wouldn’t that actually benefit them? Like you know, the first term has?
These asshole flip-floppers only concerned with themselves at the end of the day.
Not if the economy collapses, no.
Can we set the bar any lower? What is disturbing is once again, the percentage numbers. Some people apparently will trust any used car salesman…wait, that’s not fair either. At least the car salesman is giving you SOMETHING.
I’d trust a crackhead on the street over drumpf on just about any topic.
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