IsaacNewton
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The initial "rejoicing" by some Trump supporters regarding the imposition of tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, will (unfortunately) soon wear off.
Why???
Actually rather simple, the planned "tax" on imports will never match the lower costs of production in other countries such as Mexico, Canada, China, etc.......BUT, what that tax will certainly do, is raise the cost for all of us (including the domestic steel and aluminum workers') on cars, soda cans, airplane manufacturing, housing, etc.
Plus, the tariffs will surely trigger trade wars on some of our own exports as importers of our products will retaliate by making such products' prices (through their own tariffs) prohibitive for foreign buyers.
So, the "simple solutions" offered by Trump are just another example of his bravado to incite his dwindling base....but, like most things that Trump proposes the cheering and rejoicing will be short-lived even if such proposals were ever to materialize.
We're talking about conservatives here, they just have no clue about economics other than spending trillions of dollars without increasing the income to pay for that. They live in a knee-jerk world where if you make a profit today then that model is solid gold. But it never is. Tariffs are simply cheating in a global economy where the US industry can't compete. And the US isn't the only one doing it other countries do some of this as well, while some of them give subsidies to their industries that can't compete. But in the end it all comes back to who can't compete because wages somewhere else are dirt cheap.
The US though is supposed to be the powerhouse of economics. For us to cheat throws the entire world out of balance, it's like when the Patriots cheat it screws every team in the league. Tariffs have been proven over and over not to work and in fact have huge unintended consequences that hurt almost all sectors of the economy of the country imposing the tariffs. Europe is imposing tariffs on Harley Davidson motorcycles sold there. With HD lucky to be still in business this is just another blow to sales the company can't afford. And motorcycles are made with a lot of steel and aluminum, the price of which is now going up due to tariffs.
Dear IsaacNewton
I wish you'd call into Mark Levin's show
and tell him you AGREE with him. He is
screaming and yelling about conservatives
who sell out for popular politics, and lose their
whole argument against govt meddling in manipulating the market!!!
Thank you, and for once I see the left agreeing
with opponents on the right. Wow. never thought
I'd see that. Levin and others would FLIP to see
intelligent liberals getting this, while conservatives
who supposedly want free market not govt micromanagement
are lost on this issue! WTF???
Why are more liberals getting this and not conservatives???
(last time I was this confounded, it was the conservatives
yelling about freedom of choice not mandates
and the liberals didn't get what was wrong with their own leaders' policies)
You need to take the bifocals from your eyes. All you see are left and right, the world isn't made up that way.
Second Mark Levine is a screaming batshit. An angry radio evangelist that makes money off of his audience whom he dupes into buying the same book over and over and over. He isn't a patriot, he isn't a Christian, he isn't a good person. He's a leech like Jimmy Swaggart and Pat Robertson, and Alex Jones. He scares people into giving him money.