Trump tariffs: ruin U.S. economy until 2040

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To everyone reading this on their IPhone/IPad. It’s made in China 🇨🇳. Your next upgrade is going to be much more expensive after this. But I just, USA USA USA 💀

That's the thing - both Apple and Google are US companies and iOS and Android are code written by Americans in the US. We have a robust knowledge-based economy. Building the phones is part of it, writing the code is the other part, and that happens here, and we export/sell our IP all over the world.

They could write their own code or steal ours without paying. Why won't they, now?

They will. And US IP law won't be able to keep up because no country will care to enforce international law given Trump and Trumpism.

[Anonymous]

Ferris Bueller clip on 1930 Tariffs

https://youtube.com/shorts/RUAuLSYLxus?si=mx3nEWXnbTViSmwX

[Anonymous]

Truth Social:

“Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Rand Paul, also of Kentucky, will hopefully get on the Republican bandwagon, for a change, and fight the Democrats wild and flagrant push to not penalize Canada for the sale, into our Country, of large amounts of Fentanyl, by Tariffing the value of this horrible and deadly drug in order to make it more costly to distribute and buy,” Trump posted.

Ok, way too many commas, but can anyone parse this sentence???
Is he saying this is a tariff on drug smugglers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If tariffs are unfair, why is it ok for other countries to put them on USA made goods?

Who said they were unfair? They are economically destructive to the US at the rates and breadth Trump is doing them.

People on this thread, saying it is a tax on Americans, hurting the poor and helping the wealthy.
Don't other countries realize this when they are putting tariffs up?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If any day exposes the differences between urban elites and most of the country, this day does

Just had a great couple meetings with contractors working on my house in North Carolina far from the beltway bubble.

None of them are impacted by the tariffs. None of them were Hispanic. They lived in the area since childhood, an electrician, a plumber, a contractor and helpers.

All of them support stopping the overwhelming immigration that replace US workers with cheap labor and all of them support tariffs to bring back manufacturing to US.

Maybe we should be able to build our own anti-biotics without the globalists demanding their cut.

Good Day!

OMG just because you say you aren’t affected doesn’t make it true.

Wait till your plumber friend loses business because fixtures are 25% more, pvc pipes more. Those industries are bracing for losses. Look what happened to lumber in the pandemic.

But I suppose it’s all wasted breath to cultists.

+1
How can contractor friend not be worried about cost of lumber?

Either they're stupid, or imaginary.

Would bet that the Trump administration is spending some tax dollars on astroturfing campaigns.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If tariffs are unfair, why is it ok for other countries to put them on USA made goods?

Cause there's a tariff and then there's what he did yesterday which goes waaaaaay beyond just tariffs. He put them on every import. The math he used was based on trade deficit - how else does Vietnam get leveled with a tariff of 60-70%?!?!

He's so dumb they didn't even do the right math! He didn't use the tariff numbers to increase - if he did it would be like 10-15%.

My hope is as quickly as this was announced he will scale back as he sometimes does...

Vietnam is already agreeing to drop tariffs. It's inclusion in the chart was a mistake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Truth Social:

“Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Rand Paul, also of Kentucky, will hopefully get on the Republican bandwagon, for a change, and fight the Democrats wild and flagrant push to not penalize Canada for the sale, into our Country, of large amounts of Fentanyl, by Tariffing the value of this horrible and deadly drug in order to make it more costly to distribute and buy,” Trump posted.

Ok, way too many commas, but can anyone parse this sentence???
Is he saying this is a tariff on drug smugglers?

He's saying that Canada allows in fentanyl to the US, and the "RINOs" (because while they have been life long Rs, Trump only recently became a R) will get on board and not fight the tariffs against Canada to punish them for their perceived allowance of letting in fentanyl.

The last sentence, however, makes it appear that he wants to legalize fentanyl so that he can put a tariff on it, which will make it "more costly to distribute and buy."

Word salad from a man who has dementia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If tariffs are unfair, why is it ok for other countries to put them on USA made goods?

What Trump did yesterday dwarfs any country's existing schedule of tariffs against the US.

Let's look at individual countries. Is it wrong to put up a tax on Thailand, when Thailand has tariffs on US?
Thailand is currently looking to negotiate lower tariff rates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Vast majority of Democrats voted against NAFTA and later Newt Gingrich and Republican leaders were telling Clinton he had to get at least twenty votes if he wanted to pass a different trade deal.

Now all the Democrats are against tariffs?
And 'reciprocal' tariffs that have already caused some countries to drop their tariffs on America?

We are not against tariffs. But history has shown how to use them selectively. What Trump is doing is the opposite and needless.

[Anonymous]

Closing the barn door after all the livestock have escaped

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If tariffs are unfair, why is it ok for other countries to put them on USA made goods?

What Trump did yesterday dwarfs any country's existing schedule of tariffs against the US.

Let's look at individual countries. Is it wrong to put up a tax on Thailand, when Thailand has tariffs on US?
Thailand is currently looking to negotiate lower tariff rates.

In these negotiations, you have to ask, what is Trump getting personally out of it, because at the end of the day, that is the game.

[Anonymous]

Stellantis announces they are immediately laying off 900 American workers at five auto plants across the US because of Trump’s tariffs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Stellantis announces they are immediately laying off 900 American workers at five auto plants across the US because of Trump’s tariffs.

A booming manufacturing economy, right here

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Vast majority of Democrats voted against NAFTA and later Newt Gingrich and Republican leaders were telling Clinton he had to get at least twenty votes if he wanted to pass a different trade deal.

Now all the Democrats are against tariffs?
And 'reciprocal' tariffs that have already caused some countries to drop their tariffs on America?

NAFTA was over 30 years ago. The vast majority of people who voted against it are no longer around. And it proved to be a great policy.

Trump's tariffs are not in fact reciprocal. That's just one of his many lies. Stop believing lies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If any day exposes the differences between urban elites and most of the country, this day does

Just had a great couple meetings with contractors working on my house in North Carolina far from the beltway bubble.

None of them are impacted by the tariffs. None of them were Hispanic. They lived in the area since childhood, an electrician, a plumber, a contractor and helpers.

All of them support stopping the overwhelming immigration that replace US workers with cheap labor and all of them support tariffs to bring back manufacturing to US.

Maybe we should be able to build our own anti-biotics without the globalists demanding their cut.

Good Day!