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US trade deficit with Mexico hits an all-time high – The Daily Shot
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I thought Trump was going to fix this?
So did he go back on his word or does he not understand how international trade works?
I've heard him put a lot of attention on the issue. Doesn't seem to have been enough. Maybe he needs to give up on negotiations and just put the tariff hammer down, hard.
You want him to enact more taxes on consumers?
I want him to protect American Manufacturing workers from having to compete on a level playing field with Third World labor making 3.50 an hour.
It's American manufacturers that are exploiting that labor to start with.
Maybe. I don't know or care about the ownership of the factories as much as I do the jobs.
We have ignored the value of jobs to our nation, in our trade policy for decades.
We need DECADES of pro-job policies to balance that out.
You can't do that without addressing the ownership but you say you don't care about that which in reality means you don't really care.
Sure you can.
Whether it is a Mexican company, or an International, or an American corporation, if they put the factory in Mexico, it does not have to have access to sell in America. At least not without a heavy tariff so AMERICAN MANUFACTURING WORKERS can compete.
I was pretty clear that was my position before. My point is clear. Your talk of "ownership" did not address it, yet you acted as though it refuted it.
Are you trying to gaslight me?