BREAKING NEWS: Trump proposes 20% tax on imports from Mexico to pay for wall

[WillowTree]

It is a good beginning. It would help if they could keep their consumers on their side of the border!

 

[nat4900]

We just had our roof fixed by Americans. It cost $8000.00. So you would rather have 95million unemployed Americans so you can buy a cheap tomato? Why don't you get up off your Anti American ass and grow a tomato? Then they are free.

If the other half of your brain were functioning, you might (one never knows) also conclude that 95 million unemployed Americans is a tad too high......(you know with children and retirees and invalids, etc.) that 95 million would place us at about 80 percent unemployment....

But, as long as Sean Hannity told you those "facts", we shouldn't argue after Sean recently received his Nobel in economics.

 

[nat4900]

You know who is "salivating" at Trump's dumb-assed proposals on a Mexican tariff????

China and India......

Best news for those 2 huge markets......

 

[nat4900]

Every word you posted here states you are against American jobs! Does this mean you oppose the $15.00 minimum wage?

No, no...I'm all for that hike.....bear in mind that your little roof fixing....without cheap labor would have cost you $25,000.....But, hey, you're the "patriotic" type....grin and bear it.

 

[WillowTree]

Every word you posted here states you are against American jobs! Does this mean you oppose the $15.00 minimum wage?

No, no...I'm all for that hike.....bear in mind that your little roof fixing....without cheap labor would have cost you $25,000.....But, hey, you're the "patriotic" type....grin and bear it.

Now I have you dancing. It was American labor! That's a fact. Now go call a Mexican to do your roof. They will do it cheaper, while they are there get them to plant you a tomato! Oh! And make your bed.

 

[nat4900]

Now I have you dancing. It was American labor! That's a fact. Now go call a Mexican to do your roof. They will do it cheaper, while they are there get them to plant you a tomato! Oh! And make your bed

Can't fix right wingers' stupidity on a forum such as this......Stay dumb and hope that your roofers used US shingles and tar.

 

[ABikerSailor]

Trump is still gonna have to go through Congress to get these taxes signed into law.

 

[WillowTree]

Trump is still gonna have to go through Congress to get these taxes signed into law.

No problem, he has the majority and the nuclear option.

 

[WillowTree]

Now I have you dancing. It was American labor! That's a fact. Now go call a Mexican to do your roof. They will do it cheaper, while they are there get them to plant you a tomato! Oh! And make your bed

Can't fix right wingers' stupidity on a forum such as this......Stay dumb and hope that your roofers used US shingles and tar.

Here is a civil question. See if you can answer it. Why, as an American would you NOT want to see a fair trade agreement rather than a trade deficit? Go!

 

[NYcarbineer]

How many Republicans in Congress are pledged not to raise taxes?

 

[NYcarbineer]

Trump is still gonna have to go through Congress to get these taxes signed into law.

And it would be a tax on many American corporations which most of the Republican Congress is pledged not to do.

You know, the Grover Norquist pledge...

 

[nat4900]

Here is a civil question. See if you can answer it. Why, as an American would you NOT want to see a fair trade agreement rather than a trade deficit? Go!

See, your premise is fucked up.......In a Utopian world no one could argue with the premise, But, as Thomas More stated in his Utopia, the name comes from the latin for NO PLACE.

We WILL NEVER be able to match the labor costs from cheaper countries...NEVER !!!
Our only option is to manufacture things that go beyond cheap labor.....No American will ever agree to work for 2,00 per hour as Vietnam.

 

[WillowTree]

Here is a civil question. See if you can answer it. Why, as an American would you NOT want to see a fair trade agreement rather than a trade deficit? Go!

See, your premise is fucked up.......In a Utopian world no one could argue with the premise, But, as Thomas More stated in his Utopia, the name comes from the latin for NO PLACE.

We WILL NEVER be able to match the labor costs from cheaper countries...NEVER !!!
Our only option is to manufacture things that go beyond cheap labor.....No American will ever agree to work for 2,00 per hour as Vietnam.

So then you never want Americans to work. You opt for cheap tomatoes.

 

[Lakhota]

The Trump clown show is hilarious - but it's scaring the shit out of a lot of people.

 

[Sun Devil 92]

The Trump clown show is hilarious - but it's scaring the shit out of a lot of people.

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The left is pissed.

 

[Wiskers Von Pussyboots]

BREAKING NEWS: Now Trump has slapped a 20% tax on all imports from Mexico to pay for the border wall. Does that include his stuff made in Mexico?

White House press secretary says border wall will be funded by 20 percent import tax on Mexican goods

Funny. But on a serious note we can't exactly blame a business for maintaining competitiveness by doing the exact same thing their competitiors now can we? Perhaps a more striking observation is that a tax on imports would hurt Trumps outsourced businesses. So much for implying, as many Democrats in comgress have, that he would use his influence to bolster his family wealth.

Donald Trump made clear during the campaign that he used our laws to his advantage when making both business and tax descisions. Then he called those laws rediculous. Your photo, while funny, is a cheap shot that ignores how markets work and indicates why Trumps opponents who don't understand simple economics are still flabbergasted that he ate their lunch on Election Day.

 

[brummelben]

And now President Trump is going after the other 60% that do not originate here.

LOl and six million US jobs ..smooth move Ex Lax

It's a win win for all Americans except Democrats who are trying to woo the Hispanic vote by screwing other Americans.

How is this a win for Americans when the cost of goods from mexico will go up 20% and a trade war will ensue

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

........... ate their lunch on Election Day.

A reminder that factually speaking Americans preferred Clinton by 3 million votes ...just saying that

 

[Kevin_Kennedy]

........... ate their lunch on Election Day.

A reminder that factually speaking Americans preferred Clinton by 3 million votes ...just saying that

Californians*, but a reminder that American presidents have been elected by the Electoral College since George Washington's first term and the popular vote has never been relevant.

 

[usmbguest5318]

If you own Stock in these companies you can Thank Orange Ugly Gringo
Mexicans Launch Boycotts of U.S. Companies in Fury at Donald Trump
Mexicans Launch Boycotts of U.S. Companies in Fury at Donald Trump
Ioan Grillo / Mexico City 11:30 AM Central

The digital image shows a clenched fist bathed in the red, white and green of Mexico’s flag and decorated with the nation’s emblematic eagle. “Consumers, to the Shout of War,” it says in Spanish above the fist. “Consume products made in country…Use your buying power to punish the companies that favor the politics of the new U.S. government.”

Created by a Mexican food-activist group, the image is part of a slew of messages, memes and videos that have been spreading in Mexico in recent days as President Donald Trump pushes for a border wall, deportations and punishing new trade rules.

Others messages call for specific boycotts of U.S. companies in Mexico, including McDonalds, Walmart and Coca-Cola. One of the most heavily trending hashtags is #AdiosStarbucks, or “Goodbye Starbucks,” referring to the Seattle company which has opened hundreds of coffee houses here.

Mexicans Launch Boycotts of U.S. Companies in Fury at Donald Trump

That boycott has the potential to have real "teeth."

• Which Countries Import the Most U.S. Goods and Services Annually?

Of course, in their nationalistic arrogance, Trump and the Trumpkins don't care about that because it's just too much work to look into the facts of a matter before choosing a course of action.