Exactly. It's almost like they were taxing the hell out of our exports and now we're leveling the playing field. Imagine if Coach Golden demands Auburn adhere to the same rules we have to tonight. The outcry from the left will be palpable.
Stay on topic of your own thread. No one is taking about Biden. This is the largest tax increase in history and it’s here. How long it lasts is 100% on Trump. He’s playing chicken with all of us in his clown car. Do you believe communist China is going to capitulate? They don’t care if their people have to go back to the struggle sessions and eat bugs and dirt. Heck, they might just take Taiwan immediately and impose export controls that crash the world.
When Grandma loses millions in her 401k due to incompetence that a certain group of people voted for she has all of the right to hyperventilate
To call it Biden inflation is a half truth. Both parties are equally to blame by mortgaging the future and throwing money at Covid. Give people free money and tell them to spend it when nothing is being produced caused prices to rise. Factor in bad policies that encouraged some people not to work and… well here we are. The first stimulus was under Trump. Biden just continued the drunken spending.
Nobody has to tell them that they were wrong. In the not too distant future a lot of them will be personally experiencing the error of their ways. Thanks to their decision at the polls we could be experiencing stagflation for the first time in over 40 years. Only a matter of time before a large percentage of those 77 million have voter's remorse.
Trump's tariffs in his first term were almost exclusively directed towards China, which is not that big a problem. And, in fact, it may have been necessary to contain China's militaristic expansion plans. Trump's 2025 tariffs are entirely different, as he is slapping them on everyone and everything. If you can't understand that, you probably don't need to be in this discussion. I'm sure there is a seat for you at the children's table.
Trump's problem is not his age--it's his combination of extreme arrogance and ignorance. Trump's foolishness is now our problem because of his confidence in his lies. Right-wingers like a good confidence man.
Everyone that voted for Trump or Kamala were wrong. Our choices are getting laughably worse everytime.
I would also add that Trump actually bucked members of his own party and insisted on a larger second stimulus. Trump calls Covid relief bill unsuitable and demands Congress add bigger stimulus payments By the way it was Trump who signed the legislation authorizing the second stimulus although the checks/payments weren't issued until Biden took office.
there is no plan. this is what happens when the leader of the free world skips school and is never held accountable, for anything
Question - do you think the %s Trump showed on his big chart(s) were the tariff %s each country is charging? Hint: they weren't. They're the trade deficit numbers as % of total trade. That just means the US buys more than it sells to each country. You'd have to be either a 1. complete fool or 2. are trying to convince complete fools to even think it smart to present those numbers as tariffs. Or both. I think both are a real possibility. These same people also believe tariffs are a tax on the exporting country. That's also a lie. They are taxes paid by the importers, which are then passed onto consumers in the form of higher prices. So when your prices go up, your stock market (already has) collapses AND you have less choice as a consumer, remember what "genius" looks like. As an obvious Republican, watch videos of what Reagan thought of tariffs. He was an actor, yet he actually understood economics and how trade works.
Please explain this to all of the prominent Democrats who have vouched for tariffs over the past 50 years. The only reason you’re against them now is because he has an (R) next to his name.
I realize you have cognitive issues and likely do not remember, but this is the opposite of what Democrats were crying in 2018.
The people you are arguing with are pre-MAGA Republicans in many cases. You know, the party of Reagan. Remember him?
I’m not American, so nice try. Which Democrats vouched for widespread tariffs? Trump signed the current trade agreement in 2018 with Canada and Mexico for example, replacing NAFTA. At the time Trump called it the “greatest deal ever”. Now he says it was a terrible deal and didn’t know who would sign such a deal. He did! That’s how stupid he is. He is his own biggest nemesis, apparently. He clearly doesnt even understand what a tariff is or how it’s calculated. The dairy tariffs with Canada have never been applied, the quota never reached. Yet he goes on and on about 250% tariffs on milk. He negotiated that deal! Either he’s dumber than even his worst critics think, or he thinks the electorate is. Who do you think knows more about economics and finance - Wall Street and every collective market in the world, or a guy who bankrupted casinos? Be honest with yourself. He has no idea what he’s doing
It’s always a “yeah but the democrats” argument instead of debating the facts. Reagan knew tariffs were TERRIBLE for the economy - and said as much
