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Trump truly doesn’t understand how tariffs work, well since 1988.
And part of his schtick is that he thinks American companies will move their operations back on US soil if tariffs go high enough. So the ins and outs of manufacturing are really beyond his ken.
God I’m going to miss tomatoes in winter and any other fruit or vegetable that Mexico produces.
With the difference that Joyce used gibberish to hide meaning (or so some claim – I read Ulysses, and started Finnegan’s Wake before I got woke and figured out that the meaning wasn’t worth the effort).
The two grifting senators from Florida approve of the tariffs. They know it means higher costs for their constituent, but they have a great idea to mitigate the damage.
On Tuesday, Scott, R-Naples, posted an interview with Fox News, in which he explained Congress should cut taxes to make up for the increased cost of goods tariffs would bring, but the situation at the border called for action.
Trump’s attempt to strike a trade agreement with China is untenable and doomed to failure because he has no agenda, no coherent strategy, no leverage, and no momentum: some of our key allies, who might otherwise be expected to lend their support to us – and prevail upon China to address their violations of agreements they made as a party to the World Trade Organization, such as using their state-subsidized industries to dump steel under cost onto world markets, theft of intellectual property, and manipulating their currency to achieve a competitive price advantage for their exports – are currently laboring under U.S.-imposed tariffs.
And despite imposing punishing tariffs as part of Trump’s effort to “rectify” what he sees as a trade imbalance with China and other countries, the U.S. trade deficit continues to rise, primarily because of a collapse in U.S. exports.
I can’t agree more. Run for office. Local politics is the most effective politics.
I did run, I won, twice, and I served in office two terms.
After that, I was appointed to a local leadership role for the last 24-years. I have influenced the outcomes for over 150,000 for nearly 30-years by first running. It is an experience worth having.
True to form Little Donnie Short Fingers is playing his same old game of accusing others of the very things he is guilty of. In this case it is "Not having any idea what he is doing with tariffs. He seems to continue to think that the money that U.S. importers pay and then pass on to consumers is free money. He disregards the fact that his tariffs are new taxes on Americans. So Sad.
Yes, Senator Scott, let’s cut more taxes on the rich, but not on the poor and middle class, whose disposable income would largely go to paying increased prices for these imports.
A dagger in the heart of American agriculture and manufacturing did not upset Boss Putin, who now is negotiating a very real partnership with China. Dotard knows what he is doing. He is doing what Putin wants.
Not knowing what you are talking about is now a bad thing in Trumpland?
Congress has the power to make decisions here. If GOP senators don’t understand his proposal, that is Trump’s fault for not actually explaining the policy before it was enacted. Trump’s only explanation of his policy has been a series of angry tweets. That does not work as a means of negotiating with Congress.
Looks to me like Trump was desperate to find something that would take attention away from discussion of the likelihood of his impeachment or criminal indictment.
