re: If Tariffs Are Put in Place People Won't Be Able to Afford Cars

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Price inflation is only a problem when democrats cause it. Gotcha

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No dumbfrick.....Republicans have a plan, Dems just let shite happen.

Does anyone remember the massive spike in car prices back from 2016 to 2019?

No…because it didn’t happen. They shot up during COVID and have been there ever since.

Do away with CAFE standards so manufacturers can make vehicles people actually want to buy and that’ll more than offset any frictional cost from tariffs.

The cpa gtap model was quite interesting to read about.what makes you trust that model above all the others?

protectionists groups get tarrifs all wrong

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The increases in production quantity in the steel and aluminum industries translated to an increase of about $2.25 billion in 2021 for these industries combined . . . In terms of the decline in the absolute dollar value of their downstream domestic production, the downstream industries experienced a decline of about $3.48 billion in 2021 because of the steel and aluminum tariffs.”

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So the USITC study suggests that tariffs reduce net manufacturing output—that’s the exact opposite of the interpretation CPA relies on to justify its assertions.

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Reads like either they're on to something or selling a whole load of shite and I can't really tell which. Although the criticisms make sense.


Also from the cpa gtap model it clearly says tarrifs are inflationary...it just says were gonna make so much more domestically it won't matter based on their elastic tarrifs production... Which is the part it looks like many are questioning the realism of. Seems like the underlying data and studies cited in model changes don't arrive at same conclusions they did...

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love the transformation of democrats into rigid economists when a republican is in office.

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More shocking is the Republican acceptance of Democrat economics based on one man.

Tariffs are grifts to the unions, few of whom support Republicans. The support for this tax on consumers is straight out of the Democrat playbook.

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And what do the economists on the right say?

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Deflect !

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Deflect !

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Not a deflect. You obviously don't know the conservative position here.

Oh noz a 2 dollar a mnth tax!!

It’s not necessarily the Tariffs… it’s the REGULATIONS and the government STEALING or PREVENTING jobs just because it’s different from the administration’s agenda. END THESE SENSELESS REGULATIONS and prices will come down slightly.

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Pretty much everything was around the same price, except for automobiles, which were over much more expensive relative to inflation.

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We keep bailing these automakers out when they fail.

In the 80s the Reagan administration tried to protect domestic mfgs with quotas. The Japanese, being smarter than American bureaucrats created luxury brands, like Lexus, Acura... and added value into their cars and profited.

Govt intrusion into markets almost always fails, this is a conservative staple, yet here we have "conservatives" begging for more government intrusion into markets.

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So youre saying you like tariffs as a tax on consumers.

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Tariffs would be a fair and equal tax on all consumers as opposed to a very flawed and rigged income tax system that works for no one except those that know how to work tax credits and write-offs.