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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (329746)	4/5/2025 4:03:32 PM
From: Lane3	3 Recommendations Recommended By bentway CentralParkRanger zax Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 354322

>> Tariffs are a pushback, a way to protect domestic industries from getting gutted by those tactics. I know you understand this and I'm not going to talk to you as though you don't. This is a negotiation and will have to play out. You don't have to let that play out to anticipate how it would work out. A thought experiment tells you that you'd have to put a 1000% tariff on a Bangladeshi shirt to protect our domestic shirt industry, if we even have one or would want to have one. In doing so, you would not improve the income of Bangladeshi shirt factory workers so they still would not be able to buy anything manufactured by us. All you would have "accomplished" is prohibitively inflate shirt prices in the US for US factory workers and everybody else.. Still, there are people today who need to work at shirt factories. What makes you think that a US shirt factory worker could afford to buy the shirts he makes unless he got an employee discount or even then? P.S. I had a delivery from Amazon today for a second pair of my favorite jeans. Eleven bucks and change. Great fabric, great fit, great finishing. I don't know where they were made but it sure wasn't the US.

To: i-node who wrote (329746)	4/5/2025 6:39:08 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 354322

As I said, you don't seem capable of learning anything! I explain this stuff in detail and it goes right over your head--and I try and dumb it down for you -you poor creature-lol! , First of all Trump is a piece of shit and you either can't tell it, or don't care. Do you think all those demonstrations today were paid demonstrators-lol? And all this nonsense you talk about getting control of the trade deficit is nuts. Do you not realize Australia, Canada, the EU and other countries now HATE us and see us as adversaries. They are saying that out loud:" we are NO longer friends, friends don't treat each other that way"-try doing some research. What you can't seem to understand is that the above countries plus China, India, BRICS, et al are ALL ganging up on us right now. They are ALL putting on their own tariffs SPECIFICALLY to hurt us, and selling our bonds, and stopping investments and doing eveything they can in a coordinated manner to FORCE Trump to stop the tariffs. TRUMP WILL LOSE, and we will suffer as a result. And when you talk about jobs, we are going to lose so many jobs, watch, and our economy is going in the toilet. And how exactly do you even the trade deficit with Bangladesh? I told you, they give us cheap shirts, which will not be so cheap now, and it hurts them and us.