Trump Tariffs has Countries ready to retaliate?

Thebrownblob

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There's a lot more pain to come in market plummets and price increases.
Markets are pretty easily spooked. And they hate change. I’m not jumping off a ledge because of what these people believe is or is not going to happen. Wall Street has had quite a ride at the expense of Main Street. We We’ll see what happens.
 

newfie

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This may be true, but it doesn’t make it any less painful lol
ultimately we have to decide if the end goal is worth it .

i read that we're up to 16 trillion dollars of stimulus spent the past 5 years . thats all government spending.
trumps plan is to go from public tax dollar spending to private sector spending and to find alternative ways to fund the government then simply taking it from the taxpayer .
if thats what we want then we have to ride this out.
 

Box Ox

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Same. I'm not gonna start loving leftist insanity or anything but I am pretty butthurt about how the tariffs are being done. Pass the Vaseline.
It's self-delusion to think that replacing the status quo to something equitable for Americans will not require some personal pain.

I'm very wary of a plan for it that's based on a fake formula and the idea that trade deficits are always a bad thing.
 

newfie

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Chuck Schumer, October 5, 2005 (Senate Floor Remarks):
"China’s trade practices are a glaring example of unfairness—high tariffs on our exports, currency manipulation, and a flood of cheap goods into our markets. We’re losing jobs and industries because we don’t demand reciprocity. It’s time to level the field."
 

Box Ox

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Chuck Schumer, October 5, 2005 (Senate Floor Remarks):
"China’s trade practices are a glaring example of unfairness—high tariffs on our exports, currency manipulation, and a flood of cheap goods into our markets. We’re losing jobs and industries because we don’t demand reciprocity. It’s time to level the field."

Chuck wasn't talking about putting tariffs on the whole world.
 

newfie

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Chuck wasn't talking about putting tariffs on the whole world.
oe Biden, June 11, 2007 (Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing):
"We’ve got countries hitting us with tariffs three, four times higher than what we charge them. It’s not a level playing field—it’s a steep hill our exporters have to climb while their goods roll right into our markets. That’s got to change if we’re serious about fairness."
 

Box Ox

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Chuck wasn't talking about putting tariffs on the whole world.
oe Biden, June 11, 2007 (Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing):
"We’ve got countries hitting us with tariffs three, four times higher than what we charge them. It’s not a level playing field—it’s a steep hill our exporters have to climb while their goods roll right into our markets. That’s got to change if we’re serious about fairness."

It's fine if reciprocal tariffs are actually reciprocal tariffs. But they're not actually reciprocal tariffs if they're based on a made up percentage that Trump says we're being tariffed at when we're not.
 

newfie

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It's fine if reciprocal tariffs are actually reciprocal tariffs. But they're not actually reciprocal tariffs if they're based on a made up percentage that Trump says we're being tariffed at when we're not.
someone here (@Doublestandards) made the argument that trumps columbia numbers were made up and that columbia was at zeo tariffs. i do a search and find out that columbia charges a 19 percent VAT tax which is a tariff tax like any other. I'm not going down that rabbit hole. of trying to argue that trumps numbers are made up. i told you before specifically what they are looking at per their explanation. I dont have the expertise to argue with their numbers and neither do you.
 
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