Elon speaks out against the “big beautiful bill”
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These are all hypotheticals and the “self deportations” were thwarted by sanctuary states in the first term and will be again unless action is taken, which hasn’t happened.
This is patently false. The 2% myth is cherry picked, heavily government subsidized products. Wages have not met inflation for decades and are continuing to crash at higher income brackets, the H1B supply chain tied with inflation was enough to gut engineer pay to be 2/3s of its equivalent in the 90s. There’s no provided solution from the Trump admin other than more of the same.
The best solution to a bubble is to pop it before it becomes problematic, it is already too late for this. The average home is 100k more expensive than 3 years ago, the only way it would settle is if we didn’t keep mass importing immigrants and subsidizing their home buying, same with corporations. This is again something that has not been addressed by the Trump admin other than “more of the same”.
Self-deportations haven't been thwarted at all, and of course their hypotheticals, this is month 6th of the administration and midterms are over a year away.
Nothing I said in my 2nd quote is false and you didn't re-buff it either. I didn't say that 2% wasn't cherry picked, the CPI is always a cherry pick. I never said that wages didn't meet inflation. I didn't say anything about higher wages or the H1B supply chain.
I said wages will continue to go up. They will. Will they surpass inflation, probably not for a while, but for the first time in decades they are actually rising. The CPI is what it is and you'll have to deal with that. The wages of engineers are not going to be 2/3rds of what they were by the 90's because basically no wage has done that. I've seen nothing to suggest that higher income brackets are decreasing in money.
Your lying that the administration isn't reducing mass immigration and subsidizing home buying. They're actively deporting them, you're just complaining it's not fast enough. It is not a good idea to pop the housing bubble and let houses fall 80% in value in 6 months because that would implode the entire world economy and probably start several civil wars, a regional war, and a few famines. What the administration is trying to do is grow the economy around the bubble, which should reduce the damage as it deflates. Like I said, if 400k homes are on sale at any given time, and we've removed 100k illegals so far, that is a reduction on the effect of immigration on housing. Your real problem is the amount of homes being rented which are taken off the market for sale.
So Trump ended sanctuary cities and states or are you just being obtuse?
This is mealy mouthed faggotry, you wouldn’t have brought up wages or the CPI if you weren’t trying to use it as a metric.
A starting wage for a mechanical engineer in 1990 was $56,882 adjust for inflation that is $139,455 today. A mechanical engineer starting wage today is ~$79k ($73-85k). So yes they are literally making 57% of what an engineer in 1990 made adjusting for inflation.
What’s the net decrease on immigration in total? 40k deported and how many imported? I’ll wait.
Sanctuary cities are still being raided and having their funding threatened, many are backing down. That is a good thing. Just because you didn't get what you wanted yesterday doesn't mean that it's a failure and nothing can ever get better ever.
Nope, I rejected your assertions because none of them were what I said, so you started making shit up.
You claimed that wages would be cut. Not that wages won't keep up or surpass inflation. You intentionally argued something worse than what was reasonable and now you backed off. I said that wages are rising which they haven't been doing in decades.
So will I. Stop being a black-pilling faggot.
That’s a flat lie, all the Trump admin has done so far is publish a list and none have “stood down”, most just released statements that the Trump admin was lying about their status. SHOW ME ANY ACTUAL LEGAL REPERCUSSIONS OR ARRESTS.
So you didn’t bring up inflation and CPI? Or are you just doubling down on being a disingenuous faggot?
If you’re going to be a complete disingenuous faggot, then put your money where your mouth is. I argued exactly what I said, which is that engineers are making 2/3s of what they did in the 90s, and I proved it. If you want to play total dollar amounts as an “increase” versus inflation adjusted then put your money down and we’ll play that game. Again you’re being a massively disingenuous faggot. Wages are not “increasing now” they are actually LOWER than in 2022 when the starting wage for a mechanical engineer was 83k on average. You know who wages are increasing for? H1Bs, trumps change made them get paid a minimum of 85k for that same mechanical engineer starting salary up from 65k.
40k deported on track for maybe, maybe, 100k as the high estimate of deportations for 2025. At least 120k selected H-1Bs by Trump for fiscal year 2026, and this isn’t even counting legal immigrants aside from H-1Bs. Maybe you should look at the numbers…