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Trump Tariffs

My wife does all the grocery shopping and is an inveterate label reader. You would be shocked to know just how much of the food sold at WalMart is labeled "Product of Canada," among other places. And not just packaged stuff either, I'm talking fresh vegetables and breads and bakery items. Tack on 25% or more and tell me what kind of reaction you get from the working class family trying to make ends meet.
25 percent on prices that are already high. It’d be one thing if we tried this experiment in 2020 with 1.4 percent inflation. You have 4 years and 21 percent THEN try this it’s a recipe for disaster
 
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Inflation was bad and a major driver of why the Ds got the boot. I’m just saying we shouldn’t be celebrating a policy that will also lead to higher prices and impact the working families the most.
Well, our swamp policies have created all of this for decades. Yes I am biased because I lost a business and 15 employees had to create a totally new life, because of all of this shit (Nafta) and yes I am still pissed.
We sold our soul to Mexico.. Then CHina... Then Korean, Singapore, then and then and then.........
All of the "Living wage" people keep pushing our jobs to $.50/ hour labor countries so they can have cheap shit, and then make a big mac (alone) $7.00. And then they are perfectly fine with those shit hole countries and conditions that they force all of our production to, for their own FEELZ, take our jobs and place a 100% tariff on what little we do still produce.
AND LIB'S BITCH that us doing less tariffs will create price increases. I'd love to say that this is simply ANOTHER "unintended consequence". NOPE NOPE NOPE.... Swamp is effing us while making bank. SWAMP, NOT D, SWAMP. You can't spell Swamp without both a D and an R. It's well past time that their chickens come home to roost.
The swampies are coming, the swampies are coming. 1776 all over again because American's got weak! They work FOR US!
 
Oh OK. I guess that settles it.
Do you truly believe it will yield a spike in inflation? I mean...he already did it once....

Also..the yuan is down ever since Trump was elected...you don't think China will want to fix that?...
 
My wife does all the grocery shopping and is an inveterate label reader. You would be shocked to know just how much of the food sold at WalMart is labeled "Product of Canada," among other places. And not just packaged stuff either, I'm talking fresh vegetables and breads and bakery items. Tack on 25% or more and tell me what kind of reaction you get from the working class family trying to make ends meet.
Also, many landscape plants (strangely, including cacti and dry-loving succulents) are rooted and/or sprouted in Canada. Knockout roses were definitely developed in Canada.

And, and, and, what about all those affordable health-improving or life-saving drugs from Canada? Maybe Trump already stockpiled his.
 
And, and, and, what about all those affordable health-improving or life-saving drugs from Canada? Maybe Trump already stockpiled his.

Anymore the drugs the wife gets in "under the table" come from Turkey or some other oddball place. Not much from CA nowadays. Of course, now that she's on Medicare and Humana, it's not necessary to go outside the system very often like it was before.
 
True. Prices rising for this or that good isn’t necessarily due to currency dilution. But the effect is similar, if isolated. And, of course, what secondary effects come from that will hinge on the magnitude of the tariff.

Either way, it’s bad public policy…even if the motivation is less about trade protectionism and more about leverage against another country for unrelated policy changes.
But, it's OK if it sounds like what he promised.
 
Inflation was bad and a major driver of why the Ds got the boot. I’m just saying we shouldn’t be celebrating a policy that will also lead to higher prices and impact the working families the most.
I assume you’re also against letting the Trump tax cuts expire?
 
Also, for the rest of you complaining about tariffs, I’ll assume you’re also against letting the Trump tax cuts expire and raising taxes.
 
Also, for the rest of you complaining about tariffs, I’ll assume you’re also against letting the Trump tax cuts expire and raising taxes.
We need some tariffs. We need most of the TCJA to expire. We need to raise some taxes. We need to cut a lot of spending.
 
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