Discussion: Trade War Fears Grow As Trump Weighs Slapping Big Tariffs On Chinese Imports

[lastroth]

So the lesson for the Chambers of Commerce is to be careful what they wish for.

So I wonder what their vetting process is like?

[austin_dave]

Trade wars are even easier to lose.

[ncsteve]

As if Melania would get on that chopper with him.

[randyabraham]

I thought it was Ivanka.

[mattinpa]

No worries—I hear trade wars are good and easy to win.

Seriously, I’m like his base—most of my professional gear comes from China, there’s something in transit from Shenzhen right now to me, and this’ll hurt me. It’ll hurt everyone. And the folks it hurts might even notice this time.

[austin_dave]

The folks it will really hurt is farmers. The Chinese will tax US farm products, which they can rightly claim we subsidize unfairly.

[mattinpa]

It’s a consolation that Mitch and Paul et al. are tearing their hair out right now. Not much of a consolation. But some.

[jjwhack]

I have an uncle who has been a farmer his entire life. He is also a rare Democrat in an otherwise very red county. He’ll get hurt along with everyone else because his neighbors are a bunch of fucking idiots who thought The Donald gave a rat’s ass about them.

[the_loan_arranger]

As if Melania would get on that chopper with him.

[darrtown]

Slap tariffs on Chinese goods. Yeah? Good idea?? Welp maybe trump could be convinced to smack a hornet’s nest with a stick cuz he’s so smart.

[darrtown]

Well, this may hafta be my new lap top wall paper.

[daveyjones64]

As much stuff as there is that is actually done, that can be reported on…Trump has done an amazing job of milking the media into dropping each one to run with another story of “he is considering X”. Well over half don’t ever happen (According to these weeks “stories”, basically every Senior staffer should be fired tonight. And yes, that story was used to immediately drop the actual story of Tillerson being fired).

[darrtown]

Steel and aluminum tariffs weren’t enough?

[littlegirlblue]

Everyone Must Get Nude, is what it was

[not_so_fluffy]

The Chamber still has their fingers crossed that he’s going to pivot…

[mondfledermaus]

Chamber of Commerce is warning that annual tariffs of as much as $60 billion on Chinese goods would be “devastating.”

So the lesson for the Chambers of Commerce is to be careful what they wish for.

Bastards at the Chamber of Commerce are going to learn that there are worse things than high taxes and not been able to screw your employees, and Trump is proposing all of them.

[jakebarnes]

Taxes in America haven’t been high for more than 30 years.

[sandyh]

That’s sure going to disrupt the business plans for Marshall’s, the Dollar Tree and Walmart.

[sandyh]

Chinese steel and aluminum amount to only 2% of our imports. Trump thought he was going to fool people but got caught. This is just his next ploy to offset that bobo and it won’t result in anyone being fooled either. Putin won’t let Trump hurt any dictatorial communist country…or end up being mysteriously gassed, poisoned or strangled on a golf course.

[ottnott]

That one has to go up over the fake one he displays at his golf courses.