Billionaires benefit most from Tr*mp’s tax policies, and their billions leave them zero economic anxiety.
Upper/ upper-middle non-degree voters are 2:1 Tr*mp, but their high incomes shield them from economic anxiety.
Lower/ lower-middle non-degree voters are 2:1 Harris, so their real economic anxiety makes them oppose Tr*mp.
So, the whole ‘Tr*mp support is driven by economic anxiety’ narrative that the media pushed for a decade was backwards.
Wait a second, they knew the whole thing was a lie. The Annenberg School for Communications explained the real issue based on National Academy of Sciences research in 2016 and 2018.
“[They found] that traditionally high-status Americans, namely whites, feel their status in America and the world is threatened by America's growing racial diversity and a perceived loss of U.S. global dominance. Under threat by these engines of change, America's socially dominant groups increased their support in 2016 for the candidate who most emphasized reestablishing status hierarchies of the past.”
By pushing the ‘economic anxiety’ lie for years, the media avoids having to discuss issues of gender, racial, ethnic, sexual orientation, wealth and religious traditional status in the US, which might be bad for ratings. So, I suppose there’s your real economic anxiety: the media lied to avoid offending many in their audience, especially the legacy media trying to sell ads to their older, whiter, richer consumers.
Well that explains the whole focus on mass deportations instead of economics. Tr*mp promised to use the military to round-up and deport 10-15 million people in America, if re-elected.
Removing so many people from the country would cause a recession, as millions of jobs would suddenly cease, prices of food would skyrocket, construction projects would stop, goods would not be packaged disrupting supply chains, daycares would close, restaurants would close, etc. Millions of paying customers would be deported. Our economy would shrink by ~5%. Talk about creating economic anxiety.
Deporting so many people would cost taxpayers well over $300 million. And when you factor in the inevitable lawsuits and disruptions from families torn apart or mistakenly deported, I think it would be far more costly. Brookings estimates it now costs $13,000 per person deported, so in theory we’re over $100 billion. And they also explain this.
“Why do deportations hurt the economic outcomes of U.S.-born workers? The prevailing view used to be that foreign-born and U.S.-born workers are substitutes, meaning that when one foreign-born worker takes a job, there is one less job for a U.S.-born worker. But economists have now shown several reasons why the economy is not a zero-sum game: because unauthorized immigrants work in different occupations from the U.S.-born, because they create demand for goods and services, and because they contribute to the long-run fiscal health of the country.”
So, Tr*mp’s mass deportation policy would create far more economic anxiety than his tariffs, loss of healthcare or corruption.
Maybe there are some US born workers who want to take low status jobs often worked by migrants or want to live in the low status housing their families would vacate. Living in Kern County California, where workers labor in extreme heat, exposed to pesticides and Valley Fever, without adequate clean water or bathrooms, in crowded substandard housing, with poor transportation, stores or amenities, with employers who can be abusive, I doubt that very much. But maybe there are some US born workers who want to live that way.
If you say you are willing to cost the whole economy a recession, cost taxpayers maybe $500 million, cost consumers billions in higher prices, disrupt millions of jobs, and tear families and communities apart, just so more white guys can pick fruit in 120° heat, then I don’t think you’re really driven by economic anxiety. You’re just concerned about maintaining your own status, by being cruel to some, no matter the real economic costs to everyone else.
At the end of the day hating immigrants doesn’t teach any kids, care for the ill, put on a new roof, harvest any fruit, clean the floors, help new parents, start any new businesses, or buy a first home. Folks need to ask themselves whether they benefit more from a government that divides us or a government that works for us.
Harris will expand tax credits up to $6,000 for newborns, $25,000 for first home, and $50,000 for new businesses—all of which will aid folks who actually have economic anxiety—. So anyone honestly interested in solving that anxiety, should vote for Harris, not the guy who lost 2.7 million jobs the last time he was in office.
The flood of propaganda and hurricane of lies about immigrants is obscene. And some well-meaning folks who watch the wrong media are taken in by it. But the plain truth is that mass deportations would cost the US over $1 trillion, not to mention both destroying the lives and dreams of many people who have worked hard, been promised a path to citizenship, built families, churches and communities, and also disrupting the lives of everyone they help. America has a tragic history of deportations, that are a stain on our heritage. So, please, think about your real anxieties, and vote for Harris/ Walz.