So rather than countering disinformation with actual facts, your strategy is to counter with even more disinformation.
Not how I would approach it, but you do you.
Enjoy your cost of living idiots
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Not how I would approach it, but you do you.
I didn't do that. People were claiming that inflation was low because of Trump policies are being willfully ignorant. I stated that the only reason prices were so low was because the economy had crashed into a deep recession. Then you and some other dumb ass named Rifler are asking "what recession" the one that "never happened". I provided more information to jog your memories. More willful ignorance.
You realize Biden kept his tariffs in place? If they are so bad why did they continue? Post the whole story, not just half truths.
Ever own or run a business? If you were a company that was importing goods and/or components from China what would you be doing today?
The Commerce Department did that as an annual adjustment of a targeted anti-dumping campaign.
It’s not like when Trump just announced a tariff on Canadian aluminum for no reason and had to drop it after a month.
Of course they're not. It's going to be a pay to play situation with the trump organization taking the pay.
Meh.
Let me know when they start dragging pregnant women and LGBTQ humans out of their homes and throwing them into concentration camps.
Then I'll get up from my chair and do the Nelson haha point and laugh...........
And sit back down chuckling because this is what you all get for taking politics so life-consumingly seriously.
This is your fault as much as it is the people who voted for Trump, and that should piss you off to realize that.
I warned you all months ago. Now you all, like Angel Reese, are gonna learn about actions having consequences.
You called it a “great recession” and implied that it was caused by Trump’s economic policies.
The fact is the economy ground to a halt almost overnight in mid-March due to COVID lockdowns. After Memorial Day most businesses had reopened and the Q3 GDP grew by 35.2%.
That’s not a “great recession” caused by fiscal policies. That’s a temporary shutdown caused by the worst global pandemic in over a century.
No. I can't help it if you're reading what isn't there. Do you think that gas prices went down to historically low levels in 2020 because of Trump's policies? They didn't.
You want lower overall prices today? It will require an equally disruptive event. You want to complain about inflation 2 years ago? Trump’s covid related fiscal stimulus had at least as much to do with that as anything that came while or after he was president. Facts.
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I hope you are correct. Don't forget he thought insane asylums and immigrants applying for visas through asylum were the same thing. We aren't talking about a bright man so I have my doubts about not going through with the tariffs.
You have now brought up gas prices twice, which is two times more than everyone else in this thread combined. But since you keep asking, my response is the same as it has been for 4 years. Gas prices were low in 2020 due to the roughly 14% drop in demand caused by COVID lockdowns and a sudden increase in the number of people working from home.
I don’t think it’s going to happen- but it will likely get more manufacturing here and in other “friendlier” countries who are anxious to expand trade with us. Not a bad idea.
If they didn't do any good, why are the majority of them still in place? Heck, not only are most still in place but some have even been added or increased.
With that said, I really hope this is just a strong arm tactic being used by Trump.
Wouldn't an across the board tariff applied to Canada or Mexico be a violation of the USMCA treaty that Trump himself negotiated and signed?
I believe so. It would be a big mistake to do across the board tariffs with Mexico and Canada. China however...
I got news for that “worker”
If their owner is truly that dumb they’d be out of business soon anyway.
I guess this asshole poster doesn't understand the concept of cash flow...pre-buying of needed supply components exposes that company to a cash flow shortfall and limits current bonus payments that will more than be made up in the future....you can take that to the bank...
Business owner could possibly have contracts he has to fulfill at a certain price for a period of time so has to buy as much as possible at lower pricing to be able to do that. Or he is doing it to increase his profitability by buying at the lower cost then selling at a higher price due to the increase input costs by his competition who will be forced to raise prices. Last, he could just be pissed off that his employees are dumbasses and voted for Trump after telling them the negative consequences of helping get Trump elected and not paying them a bonus due to the tariff issue.
Covid opened my eyes to how reliant we are on foreign countries for basic essentials; would be nice to bring some of that manufacturing of those back here. Seems tariffs could help with that.
I do expect him to implement at least some tariffs, but this may wind up being the 2024 version of “Mexico will pay for the wall”.
If you stack campaign promises, things could really get bleak. Tariffs are specifically designed to raise prices - you’re making imports more expensive by design either to punish or to protect American businesses from being undercut by foreign competitors. Either way, you’re raising prices for consumers. I’m not a tariff fan generally, but I can see limited, specific uses, but certainly nothing broad based or to the levels he talked about.
Then you stack on the mass deportations he’s promised regularly, including “super charged denaturalization processes” and you’re removing a lot of cheap labor, which will lead to business failures and rising prices as businesses either will not be able to get enough labor to survive, will have to pay more for the labor they need to survive or increase technical automation to replace cheap workers, which is not cheap.
They can have benefits in certain circumstances and can provide some protections for American businesses, but no doubt they will increase the prices on consumers. A tariff literally has one job.
Bailout , not subsidies.
You asked
Bailout, not subsidies:
You asked what was the effect of tariffs. Asked and answered but in case you want more information.
Trump administration farmer bailouts are a series of United States bailout programs introduced during the first presidency of Donald Trump as a consequence of his "America First" economic policyto help US farmers suffering due to the US-China trade war and trade disputes with European Union, Japan, Canada, Mexico, and others. China and respectively European reconcilable tariffs imposed on peanut butter, soybeans, orange juice, and other agriculture products had hit hard, especially swing states, such as Iowa, Ohio, and Wisconsin.[1]
Thanks Hawks, I don't think I asked what the effect of tariffs were, but maybe I did post that somewhere. Either way, always good to get things clarified.
straight up .....
I honestly thought this was a ad and clicked it.
Further increasing the deficit and debt with a massive bailout for impacted farmers. You know, fiscal responsibility.
