The following are direct quotes from Donald Trump, as to what he promises to deliver if elected:
"On day one I will launch the largest deportation program of criminals in the history of America."
Can somebody tell me how this will be accomplished? The estimates are that it would cost about $88 billion to deport just 1 million people in 1 year, if that was even logistically possible. How many new police will have to be hired to round up a million people? How many would have to be caught and processed every single day, including Sunday? (The answer 2,740.)
"These companies don't make their products here in the USA then they will be forced to pay tariffs"
The US Government has no power to force an extranational company to pay anything to the US. If he is talking about American companies that buy products abroad for sale here, then yes, they can force them to pay tariffs. What will happen to the price of their goods then? And out of curiosity, what will happen to the prices of similar products made at home that will then cost less than those imports? Well, guess what -- they'll go up; perhaps not quite as high as the import, but higher than they are now. That contributes to inflation. (And it must be remembered that there are foreign goods in almost every product sold within the United States -- some which simply don't exist in the U.S. The increased cost of those components, due to tariffs, will be added to the cost of the finished goods sold in America.)
"I will cut your energy prices in half within 12 months."
So are any of the companies that sell that energy private? Does that mean that the government will now be mandating pricing policies in the private sector? I thought that Republicans were all about the reverse, and smaller -- not larger -- government.
"For people that are using IVF which is fertilization, the government is going to pay for it, we will mandate your insurance company to pay for it."
Well, which is it? The government is going to pay, or insurance companies (private companies again) are going to have their pricing policies mandated? Will that involve them raising insurance premiums, do you suppose?
"We will cut your taxes and inflation, slash your prices, raise your wages and bring thousands and thousands of factories back to America."
How many Americans are looking forward to adding another $9 trillion to the accumulated national debt, which those tax cuts are sure to do. What control does the government have over inflation, which is caused by many factors outside of government control? Slashing prices? The government is going to go out to every store in the nation and tell them, "We know you had to pay $xx.00 for your products, but we want you to sell them for 15% less?" You think that's going to work? Won't that causes massive losses likely to shut down many of those businesses? Oh, and then there are those companies (all private) that are going to be forced to raise wages for their employees -- but not build that cost into the price of their products? Oh, yeah, I can see that, can't you?
Now, anybody wonder why some of things voters were poorly informed when they voted for Trump and the Republicans?
