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>Half of Americans say they live paycheck to paycheck, so no - the majority of households will not be able to survive for long if they have to spend an extra fe

>Half of Americans say they live paycheck to paycheck, so no - the majority of households will not be able to survive for long if they have to spend an extra few thousand to stay where they are today What do you think the death toll will be? A majority of households not surviving would put it over 160 million. $4k per capita (not household) loss would put the US in 2022 territory [1]. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A939RX0Q048SBEA https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A939RX0Q048SBEA

_DeadFred_ 2y ago
Holy bad faith bs from someone who pretends they're a straight shooter. “...the death toll.” What a trash response to Americans suffering. So kind of you to volunteer that the poorest among us have nothing and should be happy about it. You admit this is a $4k hit that Congress didn’t pass. Guess after all your talk here, you don’t actually believe in the Constitution or separation of powers just “I should be able to do what I want with power.” $4k no biggie, right? From my experience, it just means when things wear out, they don’t get replaced. So shoes for kids get stretched to last longer. Car maintenance gets skipped. (You can judge a bad president by the number of broken-down cars on the side of the road.). It’s food not bought, medical/dental care skipped, rent coming up short. The real death toll won’t be a one-time body count. It’ll be slow and quiet: worse health, more homelessness, more suicides. And for what? So we can LARP like we’re rebuilding American industry without giving businesses the capital, labor, or time to do it? This isn’t strategy. It’s cruelty pretending to be policy.
- s1artibartfast 2y ago
  Im not the one making the hyperbolic claim that a majority of households wont survive long.
  - _DeadFred_ 2y ago
    Nah, you're just the one OK with Trump unilaterally imposing tariffs, something that the Constitution says only Congress can do. And like your failure to address that point in your response, caring about the Constitution isn't a thing to you.
    - s1artibartfast 2y ago
      I don't have to defend your baseless personal claims that have nothing to do with what I said. You can imagine whatever you want.

_DeadFred_ 2y ago

Holy bad faith bs from someone who pretends they're a straight shooter. “...the death toll.” What a trash response to Americans suffering. So kind of you to volunteer that the poorest among us have nothing and should be happy about it. You admit this is a $4k hit that Congress didn’t pass. Guess after all your talk here, you don’t actually believe in the Constitution or separation of powers just “I should be able to do what I want with power.” $4k no biggie, right? From my experience, it just means when things wear out, they don’t get replaced. So shoes for kids get stretched to last longer. Car maintenance gets skipped. (You can judge a bad president by the number of broken-down cars on the side of the road.). It’s food not bought, medical/dental care skipped, rent coming up short. The real death toll won’t be a one-time body count. It’ll be slow and quiet: worse health, more homelessness, more suicides. And for what? So we can LARP like we’re rebuilding American industry without giving businesses the capital, labor, or time to do it? This isn’t strategy. It’s cruelty pretending to be policy.

s1artibartfast 2y ago
Im not the one making the hyperbolic claim that a majority of households wont survive long.
- _DeadFred_ 2y ago
  Nah, you're just the one OK with Trump unilaterally imposing tariffs, something that the Constitution says only Congress can do. And like your failure to address that point in your response, caring about the Constitution isn't a thing to you.
  - s1artibartfast 2y ago
    I don't have to defend your baseless personal claims that have nothing to do with what I said. You can imagine whatever you want.