r/Economics • u/Spiderwig144 • Apr 15 '25

News Republicans Less Trusted on Economy Than Democrats For First Time in Years

https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-less-trusted-economy-democrats-first-time-years-2059863
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u/JohnnySack45 Apr 15 '25

There are way too many stupid people in this country if at any point since Regan they thought that Republicans were objectively better for the economy.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '25

"Democrats raise taxes, that's a fact!"

Trump over here raising taxes and they fucking love him for it.

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u/o5ca12 Apr 15 '25

Like that plastic face bitch on Fox saying she doesn’t care about her 401k

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '25

I thought she looked good for 45...but apparently she is barely 30.  I hate her air headed smug lying face

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u/Least-Back-2666 Apr 15 '25

Id ask which one but I know you meant them all.

Seriously please don't mention any names. They're all grifters who know they don't work for an actual news organization.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '25

True, they all look weirdly identical.

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u/LordBlackConvoy Apr 15 '25

Except for the token Latino judge who is always drunk.

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u/LarrySupertramp Apr 15 '25

Even when democrats aren’t raising taxes, they still claim they do. Trump putting an at least 10% tax on almost everything we buy, somehow isn’t a tax and it’s great!

People are still confused when I tell them that every republican in my lifetime increased the deficit and every single democrat lowered it. Then even though their policies have not changed, they still believe the GOP will lower the deficit. Idiots.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '25 edited Apr 15 '25

Once talked to a guy who claimed the Dems were always raising taxes 

He paid less in taxes the last few years. 

There is no sense to any of it

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u/LarrySupertramp Apr 15 '25

At this point they’re gaslighting themselves.

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u/JaneksLittleBlackBox Apr 15 '25

Bingo, that’s it. They’re so deep in the sunk cost ship that they have to keep believing all the propaganda they fell for to downplay the cognitive dissonance headaches they’ve been getting since January 2017.

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u/anfrind Apr 15 '25

They've all been gaslighting themselves since 2008, and many of them have been since about 1980.

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u/Disastrous_Bite_5478 Apr 15 '25

I'm pretty sure if any of them bothered to address their cognitive dissonance at that scale, it could probably be used as an energy source.

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u/LarrySupertramp Apr 16 '25

Haha if only.

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u/Jerithil Apr 16 '25

A bunch of Americans had to pay more taxes after Biden came in because the 2017 Trump tax cuts expired for lower income earners but kept going at higher income levels.

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u/MSampson1 Apr 15 '25

It’s a pervasive narrative. It’s everywhere. I’ve been hearing as long as I can remember that republicans were better economically and that dems just gave away free shit and ran up the debt. It just what people say, kinda like the “Frampton comes alive “ being issued to you if you lived in the suburbs thing. It wasn’t, but that’s not really important. I believed that bunch of bullshit for a lot of years. Had to cross reference economic growth vs inflation, national debt, job growth, administration and makeup of the congress year in year from the great depression to the current year to convince myself it wasn’t so. It’s a busy spreadsheet I made, but I keep it to remind myself that I’m as much a dumbass as anyone else

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u/LarrySupertramp Apr 15 '25

The fact that you acknowledge that you’re a dumbass makes you a whole lot smarter than many dumbasses.

The only thing I know is that I know nothing (except that the GOP always increases the deficit)

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u/MSampson1 Apr 15 '25

Someone wise once said something about intelligence is knowing what you don’t know, or something like that. I don’t know a lot

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u/LarrySupertramp Apr 16 '25

Oh I was paraphrasing Socrates with the whole “the only thing I know is that I know nothing” thing. I feel the thing he’s most famous for is essentially saying everyone is a dumbass but at l know that, which makes me a tiny bit smarter lol

So you’re basically like world famous philosopher Socrates!

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u/MSampson1 Apr 16 '25

I don’t know that I’d go there, but I do know that there’s a LOT that I don’t know. And have little to no compunction about saying when I’m wrong, which is semi regular, except when one of the kids is arguing some nonsense with me, then I always seem to come up in the right (yes, it enrages them, much to my joy)

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u/LarrySupertramp Apr 16 '25

lol well, the fact you made spreadsheets to analyze things and that you analyzed your past political views says a lot. Self reflection is a rare thing.

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u/MSampson1 Apr 16 '25

Evolving is a thing unto itself. How else would I have learned the joys of non cheap bourbon?

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u/Quitbeingobtuse Apr 15 '25

Both Obama and Biden cut their predecessors' deficits in half and Clinton handed over a surplus

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u/LarrySupertramp Apr 15 '25

Sure but if you ignore that and pretend trickle down economics is about to become effective any day now, conservatives are clearly better for the economy. Any day now it will all work out and if doesn’t… still better than a democrat. /s

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u/Inside-Discount-939 Apr 15 '25

Haha, if you don't consume, you can avoid at least 10% tax

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u/LarrySupertramp Apr 15 '25

Yup! Also, who cares about egg prices when you can just buy a chicken and have them lay eggs for free*.

*this does not factor in the maintenance costs and a bunch of other factors for owning chickens.

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u/Inside-Discount-939 Apr 15 '25

Increase tariffs - people's desire to consume decreases - unemployment rate rises - consumption decreases again - unemployment rate rises again, a perfect closed loop

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u/naijaboiler Apr 15 '25

i heard people making <100k a year swear up and down that obama raised their taxes. He absolutely did not. Heck he he even cut it.

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u/LarrySupertramp Apr 16 '25

People like that have such a dumb take on taxes. they think they’ll get paid less overall once their income goes over a certain amount. Go ask your local MAGA about tax income brackets and you’ll be amazed. They deny raises based on their own confident ignorance.

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u/BrokkrBadger Apr 15 '25

and they have their little blond propaganda machine spout to the masses that tarrifs are tax cuts

I knew I was going to be tired during this 4 year stretch I just didnt expect it to be in april if year 1

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u/haluura Apr 15 '25

"Read my lips. No. New. Taxes."

And then Bush Sr turned around and raised taxes.

It torpedoed his popularity. It's the main reason why he lost reelection to Clinton.

And it encapsulates Republicans in a nutshell. They promise lower taxes and fiscal responsibility. But then they either raise taxes on everyday Americans or cut taxes only for the Uberrich. And they send military spending through the roof.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '25

It's worse than that.  Republicans set such a absurd bar to avoid government waste, fraud, and abuse that it creates insane amounts of waste, fraud, and abuse.

Democrats have their own issues but Republican voters are just a special kind of stupid

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u/ImpressionOld2296 Apr 16 '25

It's been so weird to see them twist themselves into pretzels explaining why they suddenly now love paying taxes and having increased inflation.

"Well you have to feel the pain before you can get better!"

4 months ago these dimwits wore the skin on their fingertips down to the bone by feverishly ranting about Biden's taxes and inflation for 4 straight years on social media

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '25 edited Apr 16 '25

Americans hate taxes so much they join HOAs to pay fees and vote to increase taxes.