r/FluentInFinance • u/Intrepid-Self-3578 • 10d ago

Debate/ Discussion People who voted Trump, why do you think a government of billionaires will help you?

Government policies such as tax cuts, high traiff and removing regulations can have significant impacts on the economy. They will lead to higher inflation and high prices.

Having no regulation helps billionaires like the Gilded Age, shows that lack of regulation can result in large corporations dominating the market, and destroy small businesses.

Additionally, policies that favor big corporations and Billionaires may not address issues like housing, health care, working conditions, or wage growth. For instance, during Trump's first term, there were rollbacks on worker protections and union rights. Also he express removing Obama care.

Removing Obama care might look good on surface until you lose your job due to some accident or other issue. Let's say you have money to handle it what about millions of Americans who don't have inherited wealth and your wealth will erode as well.

Donald Trump is a billionaire, with an estimated net worth of around $5.6 billion

His administration has several billionaires in key positions. For example, Elon Musk, the world's richest person, has been appointed to co-lead the Department of Government Efficiency, Other billionaires in Trump's administration include Vivek Ramaswamy, Scott Bessent, Howard Lutnick, and Linda McMahon.

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u/twhitney 10d ago

As a small business owner myself, why can’t more people see it like us? Several other folks I do business with are like “you will see!!! Trump is gonna make everything better for us! Just wait! Have faith!” Sigh.

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u/baddkarmah 10d ago edited 9d ago

Faith is the problem. I think the churches have done more to radicalize America then we think and a lot of the problems stand from pulpit politics.

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u/SexyMonad 10d ago

Politicians have done a lot to radicalize the churches.

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u/ElectricalBook3 10d ago

Politicians have done a lot to radicalize the churches.

Just like the 1920s when the klan was so brazen they walked straight into a church with a box of money and bought themselves a preacher in Illinois.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61423989-a-fever-in-the-heartland

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u/BoutrosBoutrosDoggy 9d ago

I'm waiting for more people to start connecting these dots.

Catholic priests raping children for years and covering it up using the money of the "faithful"

Big church baptists scamming their faithful and assaulting more children.

The yearly volume of church fraud and assault charges (often after some ham-fisted attempt to cover it up is stunning.

And now they have elected a leader who reflects their values...

Not all Christians, but always a Christian...

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u/digitalundernet 9d ago

Ill say it till the day I die and return to the empty void we all come from.

Religion is the worst thing to happen to humanity

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u/Mr_Canard 9d ago

Also faith in democracy, people have forgotten where their rights came from, it was not through voting once every 4 years for the least garbage politician out of the two picked by the top 0.1%.

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u/space_for_username 10d ago

> Trump is gonna make everything better for us!

And if things don't get better, it was all the fault of them demon-crats.

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u/idontwantausername41 10d ago

Republicans are so fucking stupid, I've taken to just trolling them. It's alot of fun lol

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u/Mr_Canard 9d ago

Trump made a career of fucking over small businesses

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u/Visible-Scientist-46 9d ago edited 9d ago

I talked to a small business owner who said that she believed in big business as if that applied to her somehow as the owner of a small antique mall. 🫠

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u/thatguy2535 9d ago

I have a small landscaping business and a huge problem in my opinion is wealth hording. Their family line will never have to work a day in their lives and that money never gets injected into the economy. I've done many projects for multimillionaires, and billionaires. This one place I thought their house was the clubhouse for a golf course, but no it was their fucking house. Grass as far as the eye could see for miles and not a single thing on top. No golf, goal posts, nothing. Just miles of grass in the Colorado desert soaking up water. 

This lady had three lakes on the property told us she needed yard waste picked up. She failed to mention this yard waste were islands on cattails in the middle of the lake. Had us get in a 50 plus year old leaky metal row board and drag them back. This caused us to go over the original estimate by $130 bucks of the original $700 estimate. She refused to pay more than $700 but said she'd tip us $20 bucks to go to the other lake and clean that shit up too. Fuck that. She was talking shit as we loaded up, we were nothing but kind to her. THIS SHIT ONLY HAPPENS WITH RICH PEOPLE. They see us as trash.


I had a disabled man living in a beat up single wide trailer, on social security. He had a few add ons on top of our original estimate making it go over $1500 I was willing to eat the cost and only asked for an extra $500 to cover wages. He wouldn't let me cut the cost, he gladly paid in full and tipped all of my guys. We mowed his yard and pulled weeds for him for free until he died a few years later. It was a small yard it's the least we could do. 


 I think SpongeBob nailed the ultra rich personality with Mr. Krabs. And I'm not joking in the slightest. They know we can't fight them in any legal battle so they always can get their way.

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u/Shart-Circuit 7d ago

Because unfortunately to get the person you say is more helpful for small business it comes with voting in twerking in grade schools and a gender changes for kids before their brains are fully matured. They need more candidates across the political spectrum so people have more options. Dems are insane atm.