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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hate Trump and am trying not to overreact about how he is tanking our economy, but I see a lot of “threads” about people who think we should start to stockpile supplies. And that in 6 weeks our stores will be empty. Does anyone think that’s true?  [/quote]

Container cargo ports are emptying out and truck traffic is way down. The people who track this say in 2-3 weeks we will see empty shelves and reduced choices. It’s a large system and there is still water in the hose. Once that is through the system there is nothing or very little behind it. This will cause layoff in manufacturing in the US.

Another point nobody is talking about is the US does not have a system for tracking and charging tariffs. Right now it is an honor system with spot checks. Trump has fires most of the people who were responsible for this. The other day the computer system crashed and the US did not collect tariffs that day. There are ways to game the system, lie or pay off people. In other words smuggling. We could see the Trump administration just looked the other way and allows large scale smuggling. [/quote]

Even more reason to buy less. I don't want to pay the tariffs through higher prices when people are just smuggling them. [/quote]

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