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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.

[b]None of them are impacted by the tariffs.[/b]   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![/quote]

Either they're incredibly dense and denying reality, or don't know it yet. The US imports hundreds of billions of dollars worth of construction material - anything from steel, metal, and wood, to building components such as plumbing materials, hardware, wiring, HVAC, etc. This doesn't take into account stuff like construction equipment, power tools, and up the chain impacts (for instance, machinery for saw mills that process lumber, or pigments that go into manufacturing paint). If there is a 25% tariff on these goods, their prices will go up by at least that much. And even if you assume that there are competing products made entirely in the US, their prices will go up too (not as much as the tariffed goods), because they can.

I would be loathe to work with people that can't even see this one coming, because they're going to be least prepared to deal with it. As a consequence, their clients are more likely to be told at the nth hour that the stone they were planning to use for their counters have now doubled in price, and their project prices are no longer what they were originally quoted.[/quote]

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