The advice offered by Donald Trump and his Cabinet cronies has always been something less than credible, and more likely dangerous. It began years ago when Trump told people diagnosed with COVID to inject bleach, and it continues through his recent suggestion that it’s okay for service members to follow illegal orders, Trump has been a veritable fount of reckless counsel.
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On Sunday morning, Trump dispatched his Treasury Sycophant…er…Secretary, Scott Bessant, to another interview on another television program. Which appears to be the main duty of everyone in Trump’s Cabinet, who spend more time in TV studios than in their offices. On this occasion Bessant was there to make bizarre excuses for why inflation has persisted throughout Trump’s second occupation of the White House. Heaven forbid they take responsibility for anything. Among the prime directives of MAGA World is “Blame Others.” For instance…
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Let’s set aside why a Trump Cabinet official is appearing on “fake news” NBC (as Trump calls it). During his interview on Meet the Press with Kristen Welker, Bessant sought provide the Trump administration’s solution to the inflation problem that the country is mired in. Never mind that Trump says that there is no inflation and that the economy is better than ever. Bessant offered this advice to make everything even more betterer…
“The Council of Economic Advisers has a study. You know the best way to bring your inflation rate down? Move from a blue state to a red state. Blue state inflation is half a percent higher. And that is because they don’t deregulate, they keep prices up, energy is higher.”
Bessent: "You know the best way to bring your inflation rate down? Move from a blue state to a red state. Blue state inflation is half a percent higher."
Bessant is disgorging utter nonsense. First of all, the Council of Economic Advisers is a board comprised of Trump flunkies who say whatever Trump tells them to say. Secondly, Bessant’s explanations for why inflation might be higher in blue states have nothing to do with inflation. Regulations may increase the costs, but they are not the same as inflation. Energy prices are driven by industry manipulating supply and demand for maximum profit. And WTF does he even mean by “they keep prices up”? That’s not an inflationary factor. It’s just a disconnected swipe at Democrats that has no factual basis.
More to the point, Bessant’s claim that “Blue state inflation is half a percent higher” is entirely made up. He doesn’t offer any sources to validate the claim, because there aren’t any. On the other hand, the Wall Street Journal published a story last year that revealed the results of an independent study that found that the opposite of what Bessant said is the actual truth. The article’s headline was “Trump Voters Don’t Just Expect Higher Inflation—They Get It Too.” It began…
“Republicans right now think inflation is a much bigger problem than Democrats do, and a lot of that is just politics. But here’s another possibility: Many of the places Republicans live indeed have had significantly higher inflation than Democratic enclaves.
“In new research, economists Carola Binder, Rupal Kamdar and Jane Ryngaert examined Labor Department inflation figures for U.S. metropolitan areas, and compared them with voting data. Their finding: Metro areas with more Republicans and independent voters tended to have higher inflation in 2022 than places where Democrats live.”
So if anyone were to take Bessant’s advice, they would end up moving to a state that likely had higher inflation. Plus, they would have had to quit their jobs in the blue state, and would encounter worse unemployment in their new red state home. Plus, they would have fewer services available to mitigate their suffering in red states where they have cut funding for education, healthcare, financial aid, housing assistance, etc., to the bone. Although they would have lots of new neighbors who hate them because they came from a blue state.
On a more positive note, if enough Democrats were to move to red states, they would become less red, which would result in more compassionate leadership and more benefits for everybody. Including those remaining in the blue states who would have fewer, or less red, red states counteracting all the good that the blue states do for the nation. So maybe Bessant’s idea isn’t so bad after all.
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