By Michael Woyton
Even though there was some chatter about how the economic policies the felonious president-elect wants to impose on the United States — economists? What do they know? — there wasn’t too much in the mainstream media.
After all, it was more important to cover some horrible thing that Donald Trump said rather than the pocketbook issues that Americans said they were so concerned about in a thriving economy with lowering inflation.
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Slowly but surely — now, I think, because the election is over and writers have less news to choose from — the hard facts about how the public will be impacted by policies that the adjudicated rapist wants to impose on the country.
Paul Krugman, opinion columnist for The New York Times, wrote about tariffs and mass deportation Monday and how voters might react to the two campaign promises.
All through the campaign Trump lied to us about tariffs, saying that the countries sending us goods will absorb the cost of the tariffs.
Right. And Mexico will pay for the wall.
According to CNBC, the cost of tariffs will be paid, ultimately, by the consumer. People will have to pay more for stuff that is imported and is estimated that middle-class families will spend about $4,000 more per year.
But how will the promised mass deportations of undocumented immigrants affect the economy, Krugman wondered.
Basically, Krugman said, “If you’re upset about grocery prices now, see what happens if Trump goes after a huge part of the agricultural workforce.”
He said around three-quarters of farm workers are immigrants, and about half of them are undocumented.
In other words, Trump’s administration is beginning at the workforce-is-fully-employed stage, so who is going to pick those avocados?
Plus, undocumented immigrants make up an estimated 30 percent to 50 percent of meatpacking workers.
Krugman said the food-industry employers will have to pay higher wages — if they workers can be replaced — and those higher wages will result in higher prices.
My question is, How many of the MAGAs who ushered Trump back in office will be willing to report to work on the kill floor?
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