Originally Posted By: Salmo g.
You don't have to buy imported goods, been it would be difficult not to since most American manufacturing has been sent offshore. Not easy to find new shoes, pants, shirts, and a thousand other things that are US made.


Shoes:
https://www.allamericanclothing.com/collections/footwear-made-in-usa
Pants:
https://www.round-house.com/
Shirts:
https://www.jonestshirts.com/collections/usa-made-t-shirts-american-bayside-made-in-america

Originally Posted By: Salmo g.
Not everyone paid less tax under Trump, including me.


I said middle class and rich because you mentioned middle class, nice try moving the goal post.

Before Trump:
Single Filers:
10%: $0 to $9,275
15%: $9,276 to $37,650
25%: $37,651 to $91,150
28%: $91,151 to $190,150
33%: $190,151 to $413,350
35%: $413,351 to $415,050
39.6%: $415,051 and above

After Trump:
Single Filers:
10%: Taxable income up to $0
12%: Taxable income over $9,525
22%: Taxable income over $38,700
24%: Taxable income over $82,500
32%: Taxable income over $157,500
35%: Taxable income over $200,000
37%: Taxable income over $500,000

So if you were middle class under Trump, you were in the 15% or 25% bracket, which under Trump went down to 12% or 22%, The only bracket that went up was the $200-$400k bracket which went up from 33% to 35%, due to consolidation from 3 bracekets 33-35-39 into 2 brackets of 33-35 but this is hardly a middle class salary. So if what you are saying is true, you either made under $10k or between $200k-$400k but I don't think you made either amount here, I think you likely made more than $10k but less than $200k. For everyone making $10k-$200k their taxes went down, then again for over $500k it went down as well. So for the lower class, middle class and the rich, everyone taxes went down. Except those poor upper middle class making $200k-$400k per person.

Originally Posted By: Salmo g.
As for the 14k illegals that have been convicted, you do realize that is from over the past 40 or so years and not just the last 4, right?


Again complete BS, these numbers are for detainees released on the ICE agency's non-detained docket list who are waiting for an immigration court hearing. This is not the last 40 years, just the last 4 or 5 because these are the people who are waiting to have their asylum hearing declined. But once they have their hearing however it is decided, they are either then deported or given residency but they are taken off the docket list either way. OK so here are the numbers right here as requested by Rep Tony Gonzales and given to him by ICE, https://x.com/RepTonyGonzales/status/1839699359010533680.

These are currently released on the docket waiting for their court hearing: including 13,099 convicted murders, 15,811 convicted rapists, another 1,845 with current pending murder charges and 4,250 with current pending rape charges. All caught by ICE then released into the US waiting for 4 to 5 years for a hearing. Currently, there are more than 7 million migrants on ICE’s non-detained docket, with 647,000 of them having criminal convictions or pending charges.

Your 40 year figure is full of sh!t, just like most of your other misinformation. Do you not understand that we can look this information right up online? Quit making things up that are easily fact checked as wrong.