Hopefully you won't see rioting and looting if the orange one gets one tenth of his wish list.
Then you aren't paying attention. Even Forbes came out with an article a few years back saying the wealthiest needed to chip in more, this was during the eat the rich days. They were warning about pitchforks and such if the wealthiest continued to exploit the lower classes. Even $15 an hour is not enough to support a single person, let alone a single mom or divorced or widowed dad. Nor adjusted for inflation is it near the over $20 an hour people were paid in the 60's at like a$1.50 an hour. Roamers, I don't expect to change your mind, but some reading you might want to check out: Howard Zinn: A people's history of America. They also made into a movie if reading isn't your thing. No man is an island unto himself and no one is self made. Everyone who succeeds does so with help. The richest amongst got there by being in the right place at the right time and exploiting others. Nor can you maintain wealth without exploiting others. I'm a capitalist just like you. The difference, I understand we are all in the same boat, drinking the same recycled water, breathing the same polluted air. It takes only one freak incident to turn a person's world upside down and none of us are immune from accident and catastrophe. I don't care how I'm remembered, I just care that we take care of each other instead of attacking each other. It's better for business and better for the soul than worshiping the profit motive and exploiting others.
And with that, I am officially tapping out of this thread, bought my Chinese and French bike components before the orange one can double their price. This nonsense is only going to cause great harm. I think you will live to regret that "I won't complain about rising prices" remark. It's all good until you realize the banks are as over leveraged now as they were prior to the 2008 collapse and some how the banks were stupid enough to start buying crypto which is just a ponzi scheme. If bit coin were worth anything the saudis or Americans would have done a major by out by now. No government is because everyone except the rubes know it's worthless. So if you are very well off as an American, you may care about the prices rising in tandem with another financial collapse. No one acted on the Dod Frank Act except to regulate swaps, which shouldn't be legal in the first place.
Peace out the tariff question thread-
