When you let an egomaniac in charge of foreign tariff policies- what did you think was going to happen? It's like asking your lawn service guy to do brain surgery. "He knows his way around sharp stuff".
Trump barely survived college per all accounts, and his econ-professor said he was the god-damned dumbest student he ever had. But sure-let him in charge of how we do economic policy and tariffs.
Drumpf's got Peter Navarro on his shoulder chirping about tariffs etc. and they are good!; and the purely uneducated followers he loves to gaslight to delight all exclaim that he's a 3 d chess playing econ champion. They bought into it, so here Trump is doing his best to convince everyone, that "he" and only "King HE" can do what was originally delegated to congress to implement. You know-where a team of actual people who know how that shit works, sits together with the countries of other origins and figures out what is fair and what is just- versus a universal cast of a net - in inflame and infuriate ALL people who do business with the US.
Canada has the right idea- they told us to pound salt and they would raise equally tariffs, and how about that wonderful tourism trade that isn't happening from them or other countries. To date the estimate is close to 13 billion and rising. Great job asshole. Crops going to waste with nobody to harvest- great job asshole. Housing going up with labor losses and goods costs rising- great job asshole. But Billions in Tariffs raised- and paid by the best patrons of all. AMERICANS.
Imagine if you were told that your federal income tax would go up 2k per yr, but you were not getting taxed on overtime or SS?! How that would be fair to the lowest wage earners while the highest get tax breaks? Consumers like low income earners- spend 85-100% of their pay on consumption, and will pay the biggest burden on these tariffs.
Leave it to Republicans to give you a nickel in your right pocket, while they are taking dollars out of the left pocket. And all you RedHats think this is terrific. Absolute insanity and stupidity.
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