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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OMG. Taking on debt to stockpile random $hit that might be [b]slightly more expensive[/b].

The stupidity. It hurts. [/quote]

Right, because Trump announced that the tariffs would produce tons of money, enough to pay for childcare, etc. And that means they must be very small.

Can any Trump supporters do math at all?[/quote]

I don’t know how tariffs would produce tons of money except in the sense that the USG would be collecting more revenue. Not sure how that will impact individual childcare.

The point of the tariffs is to make gains in our trade deficit and increase US manufacturing. The argument is that we can’t increase US manufacturing if our manufacturers are competing against subsidized imports.

Whether the tariffs will help in the push to increase US manufacturing is unknown (I would guess not because we have a lot of structural problems here) but the goal is not to stop us from buying yet another salad spinner from Walmart. Even with a tariff on that salad spinner, it’ll still be cheap.[/quote]

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