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There is a commonsense solution to lowering inflation: Go back to Trump’s policies
American Thinker ^ | 14 Jan, 2022 | Jack Hellner

Posted on 01/14/2022 5:28:16 AM PST by MtnClimber

Biden and his team obviously don’t have time to address inflation, the border, or crime. They are too busy lying about “voting rights” laws that open the door to massive cheating, spreading lies about systemic racism, targeting parents and seeking to destroy their political opponents.

President Trump’s policies basically consisted of smaller government, fewer regulations, lower taxes, and energy independence. The results of Trump’s policies were good economic growth, reasonable energy prices, wages rising, especially for those at the bottom, and record low unemployment rates for all races and people at all education levels.

Energy independence gave all people affordable prices throughout his term. OPEC countries, Russia, and other producers had a major competitor and could not control prices. Oil traders knew Trump was willing to drill, produce and approve pipelines so they did not have any incentive to push up prices.

Trump put tariffs on China and that did not cause high inflation or supply shortages no matter how strong the demand was.

We are constantly told by Democrats that the reason women aren’t going back to work because there is no affordable day care. Isn’t it amazing that the U.S. had record low unemployment for women at 3.1% in February 2020?

Trump also enforced the borders and was more restrictive on immigration visa sand we did not have high inflation, supply problems, or worker shortages.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: communism

1 posted on 01/14/2022 5:28:17 AM PST by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 01/14/2022 5:28:34 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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encourage energy independence again... biggest liberal mistake...


3 posted on 01/14/2022 5:33:15 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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There’s a common sense way to going back to Trump’s policies. Do the election audit. And Now before the material is allowed by law to be discarded.


4 posted on 01/14/2022 5:36:17 AM PST by stanne
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wrong....

eliminate the Fed, go back to sound money...


5 posted on 01/14/2022 5:36:42 AM PST by wny ( )
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I was listening to an analyst talk about inflation. (From memory.) The government has changed the way it calculated the Consumer Price Index, CPI, (the cost of a basket of goods) twice. They started the calculation in the early eighties. There are actually good reasons to minimize this number. A lot of payments are indexed to this number. If the number is high, then all the payments go up
correspondingly and it creates a positive feedback loop, and we get hyper-inflation.

The present CPI is reported by our lying government at about 4%. But calculated the way it was in the ‘90’s it’s about 7%. Calculated the way it was in the ‘80’s it’s about 15%.


6 posted on 01/14/2022 5:50:58 AM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud?)
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Milton Friedman:
“Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon, in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.”

A great example of this is Bitcoin. It is a currency which Governments hate because they can't inflate it and which can move all the the world unimpeded by their greedy hands. The demand for a theft free currency is so high that Bitcoin has reached amazing heights in value . All this for something that is ultimately nothing more that one's and zeros on a computer! Even with some built in inflation Bitcoin continues to rise making Governments even more desperate to stop it. Bitcoin is getting close to reaching its finite value , so no more inflation for it soon.

7 posted on 01/14/2022 5:52:12 AM PST by Nateman (Xi Jinping is the most diabolical enemy America has ever had. 🍊)
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What is there about Joe Biden that suggests he would agree to common-sense solutions?


8 posted on 01/14/2022 6:27:56 AM PST by oldtech
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9 posted on 01/14/2022 6:43:07 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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Smaller government, fewer regulations, lower taxes, and energy independence.

Nothing confusing about that unless your a democrat.


10 posted on 01/14/2022 8:02:59 AM PST by Vaduz ( )
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11 posted on 01/14/2022 8:11:54 AM PST by 4Liberty (Let's go Brandon 👏 ...👏 ...👏👏👏 https://youtu.be/qr_F_XQrukM?t=1)
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You have myoptic tunnel vision. Cryto inflation is running rampant. New crypto money supply (new coin x, new coin y, lather, rinse, repeat endlessly) is constantly being created out of thin air.


12 posted on 01/14/2022 8:16:22 AM PST by BiglyCommentary
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