Americans Are Stockpiling to Get Ahead of Tariffs

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Anonymous wrote:And why anyone
Had Dems not ignored (more than ignored) crypto investors - all young people, they would have had some chance.

I would love to see what happens with crypto.

There is no way it will be legalized.
Fake promises

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Anonymous wrote:I don't see why someone would stockpile TP or paper towels due to tariffs. Those items aren't that expensive and even a 100% tariffs would only increase the price by a couple bucks compared to the space required to store a stockpile.

I could see it for appliances, electronics or cars. Possibly coffee depending on how expensive your brand is since coffee is fairly small.

The vast majority of TP is made in U.S. it wont be affected by tariffs.

But the wood comes from Canada.

America has commercial forests. Why are we importing wood from Canada for this?

The same reason we import electricity and oil & gas from Canada. They sell a different kind of product that is in demand in the US.

Tariffs have literally never worked. It made the great depression that much worse...so it's odd that here we are 100 years later implementing the same nonsense measures.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do we import toilet paper?

Most TP sold in the US is made in the US. However we have a lot of butts. So, we import some of it. I actually don’t know what TP is made out of but I know Canada has a lot of softwood lumber.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't see why someone would stockpile TP or paper towels due to tariffs. Those items aren't that expensive and even a 100% tariffs would only increase the price by a couple bucks compared to the space required to store a stockpile.

I could see it for appliances, electronics or cars. Possibly coffee depending on how expensive your brand is since coffee is fairly small.

The vast majority of TP is made in U.S. it wont be affected by tariffs.

But the wood comes from Canada.

America has commercial forests. Why are we importing wood from Canada for this?

The same reason we import electricity and oil & gas from Canada. They sell a different kind of product that is in demand in the US.

Tariffs have literally never worked. It made the great depression that much worse...so it's odd that here we are 100 years later implementing the same nonsense measures.

Perhaps not but Biden did not reverse Trump’s China tariffs the first time around. Biden doubled down using a myriad of other laws. It appears that both parties think tariffs work. So different from the free market concepts of old.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't see why someone would stockpile TP or paper towels due to tariffs. Those items aren't that expensive and even a 100% tariffs would only increase the price by a couple bucks compared to the space required to store a stockpile.

I could see it for appliances, electronics or cars. Possibly coffee depending on how expensive your brand is since coffee is fairly small.

The vast majority of TP is made in U.S. it wont be affected by tariffs.

But the wood comes from Canada.

America has commercial forests. Why are we importing wood from Canada for this?

The same reason we import electricity and oil & gas from Canada. They sell a different kind of product that is in demand in the US.

Tariffs have literally never worked. It made the great depression that much worse...so it's odd that here we are 100 years later implementing the same nonsense measures.

We have tariffs on Canadian lumber products already.

https://www.ttnews.com/articles/us-south-lumber-production

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Anonymous wrote:Do we import toilet paper?

Most TP sold in the US is made in the US. However we have a lot of butts. So, we import some of it. I actually don’t know what TP is made out of but I know Canada has a lot of softwood lumber.

I'm laughing at the butts-to-trees imbalance between the US and Canada and how this can be used to illustrate the real-world effects of economic trade theory.

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No they’re not.

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Anonymous wrote:Over the last few days in the East Coast Seaside town I've had conversations with thee local business owners who lament the fact that they can't hire anybody. there's no one to hire. Which does not surprise me because fat lazy Americans don't want hard work, physical jobs like restaurants and retail. Get ready to pay much higher prices for produce when there is no one to pick fruit and produce just rots in the fields. Get ready to pay twice for that new roof you need to put on your house and get ready to wait an extra few months to get that roof work scheduled, again because there aren't enough Americans willing to do the work. You're right, it's so terrible to have immigrants come here to actually do the work that keeps our nation running. Hopefully Trump will at least enable and encourage a real legislative solution.

There are people to hire, but "the nobody wants to work anymore" crowd won't pay what people are willing to work for.

Which means, technically, that they don't have businesses. They have hobbies that they want other people to subsidize.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OMG. Taking on debt to stockpile random $hit that might be slightly more expensive.

The stupidity. It hurts.

We are not talking 25 percent we are talking 60 percent uptick and supply chain operations disrupted

Also no milk for kids definitely no milk and soy lol not that either and it’s no longer an export as well Brazil will fully take that over .

Americans are dumb they do not do well without conscience now add all the rest of the crap that’s coming when you vote in apartheid and a dummy racist Nazi loving con

This is not going to end well
But hey whites will be in control white Catholics that is. Yes you dummies you forgot who pays Trumps bills . You forgot Trump and sex offenders of kids go hand in hand . Red states want your baby girls to breed .VA Youngkins got maternity homes ready with DeVos Catholic ones I. The 1970s were oh so horrifying but hey thanks for this I’m old I have no worries you all do

There will be devastation disease and major food shortages.

Opus Dei owns you all now your daughters especially

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Anonymous wrote:OMG. Taking on debt to stockpile random $hit that might be slightly more expensive.

The stupidity. It hurts.

We are not talking 25 percent we are talking 60 percent uptick and supply chain operations disrupted

Also no milk for kids definitely no milk and soy lol not that either and it’s no longer an export as well Brazil will fully take that over .

Americans are dumb they do not do well without conscience now add all the rest of the crap that’s coming when you vote in apartheid and a dummy racist Nazi loving con

This is not going to end well
But hey whites will be in control white Catholics that is. Yes you dummies you forgot who pays Trumps bills . You forgot Trump and sex offenders of kids go hand in hand . Red states want your baby girls to breed .VA Youngkins got maternity homes ready with DeVos Catholic ones I. The 1970s were oh so horrifying but hey thanks for this I’m old I have no worries you all do

There will be devastation disease and major food shortages.

Opus Dei owns you all now your daughters especially

Thank you for contributing your thoughts but your post is inarticulate.

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Anonymous wrote:Do we import toilet paper?

Most TP sold in the US is made in the US. However we have a lot of butts. So, we import some of it. I actually don’t know what TP is made out of but I know Canada has a lot of softwood lumber.

I'm laughing at the butts-to-trees imbalance between the US and Canada and how this can be used to illustrate the real-world effects of economic trade theory.

We need a "tree for every butt" campaign.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Over the last few days in the East Coast Seaside town I've had conversations with thee local business owners who lament the fact that they can't hire anybody. there's no one to hire. Which does not surprise me because fat lazy Americans don't want hard work, physical jobs like restaurants and retail. Get ready to pay much higher prices for produce when there is no one to pick fruit and produce just rots in the fields. Get ready to pay twice for that new roof you need to put on your house and get ready to wait an extra few months to get that roof work scheduled, again because there aren't enough Americans willing to do the work. You're right, it's so terrible to have immigrants come here to actually do the work that keeps our nation running. Hopefully Trump will at least enable and encourage a real legislative solution.

There are people to hire, but "the nobody wants to work anymore" crowd won't pay what people are willing to work for.

Which means, technically, that they don't have businesses. They have hobbies that they want other people to subsidize.

This. You have a pay a livable wage or people aren't going to work for you unless they are desperate.

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Anonymous wrote:Over the last few days in the East Coast Seaside town I've had conversations with thee local business owners who lament the fact that they can't hire anybody. there's no one to hire. Which does not surprise me because fat lazy Americans don't want hard work, physical jobs like restaurants and retail. Get ready to pay much higher prices for produce when there is no one to pick fruit and produce just rots in the fields. Get ready to pay twice for that new roof you need to put on your house and get ready to wait an extra few months to get that roof work scheduled, again because there aren't enough Americans willing to do the work. You're right, it's so terrible to have immigrants come here to actually do the work that keeps our nation running. Hopefully Trump will at least enable and encourage a real legislative solution.

There are people to hire, but "the nobody wants to work anymore" crowd won't pay what people are willing to work for.

Which means, technically, that they don't have businesses. They have hobbies that they want other people to subsidize.

This. You have a pay a livable wage or people aren't going to work for you unless they are desperate.

But you also need a purchasable price point. People aren't going to buy if something is neither cheap nor reliable.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't see why someone would stockpile TP or paper towels due to tariffs. Those items aren't that expensive and even a 100% tariffs would only increase the price by a couple bucks compared to the space required to store a stockpile.

I could see it for appliances, electronics or cars. Possibly coffee depending on how expensive your brand is since coffee is fairly small.

The vast majority of TP is made in U.S. it wont be affected by tariffs.

But the wood comes from Canada.

America has commercial forests. Why are we importing wood from Canada for this?

It's integrated. Companies operate on both sides of the border.

[Anonymous]

The biggest toliet paper manufacturer near DC is in West Virginia. No stocking up needed