Inflation is based on a lot of things and it is hard to say if it would be different under Trump.
If only we kept records on things like inflation while Trump was President as opposed to inflation while Sloppy Joe, the rambling dementia patient, is President.
Trump was part of the government hand outs originally.
Yeah, I know, right? That's why when he left office, inflation was 1.7 ******* percent.
The annual inflation rate in the US accelerated to 7.5% in January of 2022, the highest since February of 1982 and well above market forecasts of 7.3%, as soaring energy costs, labour shortages, and supply disruptions coupled with strong demand weigh. Energy remained the biggest contributor (27%...
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Of course blame gets put on congress as well.
No, basically the (D)imbo ******* lying scumbag grifters in Congress.
People are not working leaving supply chain issues. People who are working lower paying jobs are getting paid more leading to increased cost of products.
So according to your economic genius, the goods that are not reaching market due to the supply chain issues would have cost more if they reached the market because wages are up.
Brilliant.
I doubt trump would have placed vax mandates which could have helped a little. I think things may have been a little better but still pretty messed up. We will probably need many years of major changes to truly make an impact
Yeah, no doubt. I mean, inflation was raping America under Trump, basically stuck between 1.7% and 2.4%. Horrible. Thank God now we have a genius running the nation, a man whose brilliance emanates from his brilliant public speaking.
"Computer chip production is down, so the price of chips goes up and people love chips like Lays and Ruffles so that causes a run on chip dips, so supplies of dips dip and chips go up and rising balloon prices cause people to look up and hurt their necks and see their doctors, which causes medical scarcity and the price of potato chips and Ford F-150's to explode. sCyEnSe!"
- Joe "What The **** Did He Just Say?" Xiden
P.S. I know why you are such an apologist and fan of inflation, jitter$50. If you wait long enough under Dementia Joe's policy, the $50 you still owe me will have a value of about $10 by the time you pay.