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

To: i-node who wrote (343892)	8/8/2025 11:50:29 AM
From: Qone0	5 Recommendations Recommended By John Koligman rdkflorida2 Steve Lokness Trader77 Wharf Rat Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361175

Can MAGA understand this?

To: i-node who wrote (343892)	8/8/2025 11:59:11 AM
From: Steve Lokness	2 Recommendations Recommended By Trader77 Wharf Rat Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 361175

Oh boy, 100 jobs! Employment numbers set to explode. aluminum production needs a huge amount of electricity. Higher demand - while putting a damper on green energy - means higher energy cost for consumers. This is another example of the dumbness of tariffs; let the market decide where the best place is to produce aluminum - like in Canada with their huge energy supply or Norway with its huge hydroelectric production.

To: i-node who wrote (343892)

8/8/2025 12:22:55 PM

From: koan

Respond to of 361175

None of that addresses Trumps lie about foreign companies paying the tariffs!!

All the money we are getting from the tariffs are from taxes paid ONLY by Americans.

He is lying to fool people into thinking we are getting all this money from foreign companies.

Do you not understand the tariffs are causing many more jobs to be lost than gained e.g. domestic car production ries on foreign parts and steel, copper and aluminum, and when those rise in price from tariffs,it makes domestic cars more expensive.

So a lot of people are being laid off, that is why job numbers are down, and will stay down.


And I have seen huge price increases in just the last few days at three places I go a lot. As well, history shows that when tariffs cause imports to rise in price, domestic suppliers just raise their prices accordingly. Businesses always look for ways to raise prices, and as you know grocery stores work on slim margins, so they can't eat the price increases.