re: Tariffs I urge caution

Tariffs off set the "human rights" costs that other countries ( China, and Mexico for example do not have. The period of time you are referring to didn't have minimum wages, unemployment insurance, workers compensation insurance, social security, OSHA and all of the federal regulatory agencies, product liability insurance, fire marshal and health department inspections, local business taxes and building codes, etc. All of these cost have to be built into US Made products and services. They do have the corrupt politician fees, but they are not as expensive as the US. Add these cost to any product or service sold in the US market and not just businesses located in it.

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Tariffs are taxes on consumers. Nothing more.

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What are loss jobs then?

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Welfare.

Free trade absolutist rather put people on welfare than pay a few dollars more on foreign imports.

They see no dignity in the jobs they destroy. They just want their cheap steel from China damn it.

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The idea that protective tariffs can restore America’s economic greatness, based on the interpretation that they fueled our growth in the 19th century

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Gaslight much?
1) American greatness is a 20th century generation. Not 19th Century.
2) The structure and rationale of 19th Century tariffs was entirely different than those presently considered.
3) Tariffs being contemplated now are designed to increase US growth as well as tax revenue at a time we are running hideous deficits.

Tariffs should always be a last resort.

Talk to American businesses and see what their gains are by outsourcing our work overseas. They're going to tell you A) corporate and payroll taxes and B) regulations.

Fix those two issues you saw most of the problem.

I'm not against tariffs poor countries that are purposefully manipulating currency or wages. But we are never going to be able to compete with China in India in the wage war.

So figure out what Americans can do better and more efficiently. And promote businesses going that direction.

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Fine, place tariffs on every migrant hired.

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Just jack up the H1-B minimums (salary) to be 150% over American Citizen worker.

Will fix this issue overnight.

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Tariff what we make, don’t tariff what we don’t make.

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Basically corporate welfare paid by consumers.

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Or welfare by the tax payer.

Make your choice.

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A realistic threat of a tariff serves essentially the same purpose as an actually implemented tariff.

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yes and Trump is astute at exactly that kind of business dealings

that's my read on most of it

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How much more are we paying on daily used goods from tariffs?

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The U.S. Treasury took in 4.7 trillion in tax revenue.

But they are going to complain about 200 billion in tariffs being inflationary to their imported goods.

yeah we have been through this ad nauseum with IB A CHINAMAN. his chinese trinket import business took major hits during trump thus him being so mad.

trumps tariffs did not hurt me one iota and i am even willing to pay more for American jobs and to prevent dumping. other countries have tariffed us for ages.

i mean heck. trumps tariffs or these inflated prices for goods and services we are paying now? which was cheaper? TRUMPS.

Yeah, Trump has no idea how economic policy works. That's why the economy in his first term was so bad.







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