The Tariff conversation is annoying to get involved with.
These countries around the world Tariff American products and hinder the fair trade goal. What is aggravating are people quoting great economist and politicians to bolster the anti Tariff (really anti Trump) argument. Why is it so hard to understand the stupid argument that tariffs are bad seems to be one direction...i.e. bad when Trump does it but fair when the world does it to us. It seems that the American blue collar steel, coal, auto industries have just enough time separated from their heyday for Americans to have forgotten how resources rich we are and how much we produced. Unlike any other country there is not a country as resource balanced wealthy as we are. Globalism has turned off American resourcefulness and independence and watched crooked politicians barter away that independence. The man has been in office less than 6 months and he has gone directly into solving the trade deficits killing our economy, under status quo politicians we went from producers to service dominated. Do we still have a generation of workers to fulfill bringing jobs back? Well with the trend to smaller families we will need immigrants to provide workers because so many young Americans refuse to labor for the "man".
It's a simple strategy, remove tariffs or lose market share, competition is our friend because of untapped global economy ready and willing to make a deal. Let's not forget how tariffs work and who benefits when all these countries tax out exports/imports the politicians of importing countries pockets that money their own people pay the cost and American products are priced out of competitive markets
M.T.F.A. make trade fair again.
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Last edited by WarriorDiplomat; 05-05-2025 at 16:15.
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