It
is
impossible because your pockets have been picked clean by the wealthy
and elite class. Now you know why your forefathers kicked
the British bastards out for the same behavior! When greed replaces character and integrity those with the problem are vermin. The following points explain where the average
person's money goes, after the pickpockets strike.
Essential
Household Purchases
Essential purchases that make up a significant portion of household income include housing, food, and transportation. Housing expenses, such as rent or mortgage payments, property taxes, and utilities, are the largest category of spending for most households, followed by food and transportation costs, including vehicle purchases, fuel, and public transportation.
Low-income households spend a larger share of their income on basic needs like housing and food compared to higher-income households. Housing expenses account for about 41% of spending for low-income households, while food spending takes up a higher share of their budget compared to other households.
These essential purchases often leave little room for discretionary spending, which can make it challenging for low-income families to afford non-essential items that might be considered necessary by higher-income standards.
Dollar General warns low-income Americans’ finances are getting worseLocally
Produced Essential Purchases (ie no tariffs)
Essential purchases produced in the local US economy include food and other goods that are grown or manufactured near consumers. These products help stimulate the regional economy, create and retain jobs, support families and communities, and promote environmental sustainability.
Food, in particular, is a significant part of the local economy. According to data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, agriculture, food, and related industries contributed roughly $1.537 trillion to U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) in 2023, a 5.5-percent share. The output of America’s farms contributed $222.3 billion of this sum—about 0.8 percent of U.S. GDP.
Local food
production supports various sectors, such as food and beverage manufacturing,
food and beverage stores, food services, and eating/drinking places. These
sectors rely on agricultural inputs to contribute added value to the economy.
Other locally produced and sourced goods and services purchases include
Gasoline
Home and Car insurance
Mortgages
Repairs and maintenance
Utilities
Medical care (but not pharmaceuticals)
Now Here is The Trick: What
You Have Left After Covering Essential Services is Called Disposable and Discretionary
Income
It is explained in this link from Investopedia.
Simply Put: You Can’t
Spend What You Don’t Have And There is No One Else to Pay For it For You.
In
addition, besides not having the money and hopefully being smart enough
to not use credit you DO NOT HAVE TO BUY DISCRETIONARY
ITEMS. WANTS ARE NOT NEEDS. IF SOMEONE DOES MARK UP DISCRETIONARY
ITEMS AND YOU DON'T BUY THEM THEN THEY TAKE THE LOSS NOT YOU. Go to a
liquidation store and you will see thousands of items some retailer
paid too much for, can't sell it and now it is available for 5 cents on
the dollar. Eventually they smarten up and don't buy it and the
end of the cycle is prices go down.
Read this article and you can understand just how cheaply places like China can produce quality goods. Don't buy the story that it is slave labor. The workers have lots of choices where to work. Instead of looking at the world through propagandized glasses, ask a person you know that owns a small business how they work, the hours they put in, and so on and you will see that the core principle of looking after yourself has nothing to do with employment for a large company. The behavior is different.
What the Comfort Class Doesn’t Get
And why don’t you have extra disposable or discretionary income? You do not have any disposable or discretionary cash left over because your service jobs are crap, don't pay well and the idiots running the government have spent trillions on pork barrel projects, waste, fraud and abuse which directly comes out of your pocket.
Think US AID, an unaccountable Pentagon, bullshit wars, teachers that don’t teach, but still get union salaries and pensions, let trannies beat-up your little girls, governors that flood the country with TOTALLY USELESS (All) AND DANGEROUS ILLEGALS (MANY), a health care system with doctors who will butcher your innocent children, and elected corrupt thieves like Biden who skim off cash for his drug addled, brother’s wife diddling son, with the rest of his family picking taxpayers’ pockets. Plus your representatives fund the complete shyster clown Zelensky to push a war with Russia that the US started in the first place, with the help of one of God’s Chosen People, the ignorant witch Victoria Nuland.
You are in a service, not a manufacturing economy because wealthy Americans have moved all manufacturing to places where the people work cheap, like China, Mexico, India and so forth. Both the United States of America and you got screwed by the rich so they could make more money using cheap labor, land and materials, and to hell with you.
Bottom line, flush the bastards out, make them reshore manufacturing, buy local and save your money for a few years. Its that simple. Wait for the good jobs to come back and buy nothing from places that bring in foreign goods or use robots to replace people.
Some things like electronics that are made overseas may cost more, but I am using an 8-year-old iPhone. It works perfectly and I have no need for a newer phone that costs more. I also drive an American car.
Look at this link from Consumer Reports on the 10-year cost of ownership for foreign and domestic vehicles. A Chevrolet costs $750 more than a Toyota over 10 years, or $75 per year. Oh Gee! Big effing deal! Now look at the high-end foreign brands farther down the article. Oooh, but I am so special, I drive one of these pieces of crap and pay through the ass. Good idea!
So if locally produced goods and services go up it is a sleight of hand screwing by local suppliers, not tariffs.