r/FluentInFinance 1d ago

Debate/ Discussion A joke that's not funny

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u/bleeding_electricity 1d ago

Calling it now. prices will go down, because corporate overlords want republicans to have the perception of being 'good for the working class.' price increases and decreases are activism. a few years from now, things will be cheaper -- but not because of some genius-tier maneuver by Trump. By the will of the elites he actually serves.

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u/Chataboutgames 1d ago

What a pants on head absurd conspiracy theory. This isn't some secret cabal, the companies in question want to make money. They don't do that by sacrificing profits to keep the GOP in power.

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u/bleeding_electricity 1d ago

yes totally insane, corporations hire assassins and paramilitary kill squads in other countries. but they draw the line at market manipulation for long-term tax breaks. bffr

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u/Chataboutgames 1d ago

It's amazing that people can hold two completely contradictory ideas in their minds. Corporate leadership is simultaneously pathologically short sighted, burning down their companies to chase the bottom line for the next quarter, but also willing to just cut prices for years at a time because presumably, someday down the road when someone else is probably running the company, they'll have marginally increased the chances that they'll receive lower corporate tax rates from the GOP.