Trump to impose tariff on steel and aluminium, geaux Trump!

Who names their kid Zippy?

 

Not his parents. It's a nickname.

 

Your own article tells you that manufacturing has become half of what it was even 20 years ago. Instead the financials and healthcare have grown substantially bigger. Financials don't require a lot of people and healthcare is just taking care of the sick. I don't know if it benefits the economy. Ultimately you have to make stuff people want to buy.

 

US make good weapons and provoke wars everywhere. That's your best industry.

 

I bet you'd be shocked to learn trump isn't even correct in designated china a "currency manipulator"...

 

If you work in the trump cabinet you are required to repeat his lies no matter how ridiculous... and no matter how ridiculous they make you look...

 

Not to mention... a GLOBAL trade war is a curious way to handle CHINA...

 

We still "make stuff", opposite to what you said.

Of course our economy has changed since the heyday of the 50-70's, because...wait for it...the global economy has changed. But that doesn't mean that "China makes everything" and "we make nothing".

Ultimately we do make "stuff people want to buy".

 

china gained admission to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in ~ 2016. members submit
quarterly data to the IMF for review, to make sure that there is no currency manipulation.
July 2019 was the most recent data submittal, the review of which indicated that

all IMF members were deemed to have acted appropriately​

 

Yes. The way to deal with the PRC was multi-laterally through the TPP. That was designed to contain and pressure the Chinese. Instead this Admin. has gone after allies while the PRC has been expanding it's trade with other countries. I noted in another thread that the PRC has outflanked the US.

 

Despite what trump says, farmers are getting madder and madder with the trump tariff wars...

 

Exactly. The way trump "handled" China is the opposite of what he should have done from the get-go. Mr trump has been an unmitigated disaster. I've been astonished at how, over and over again, he's done the opposite of what he should have been doing on a host issues relating to foreign relations, economically and otherwise. trump has, quite incredibly, done things designed to damage our country, damage our allies, our friends, and our reputation around the world. It's really a remarkable performance. It's like one of our worst enemies is whispering in his ear, telling him what to do

 

A primer in tariffs for the dotard, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-...-4-billion-in-june-alone-business-group-says/,

U.S. companies, not countries, pay tariffs​

"Americans are already paying record-high tariffs, and the biggest hit to consumers is still to come on September 1,"

Contrary to what Mr. Trump erroneously and repeatedly states in tweets, companies that import goods and services pay the tariffs to U.S. Customs and Border Protection,

not countries like China.
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The proceeds wind up in the U.S. Treasury, and companies either absorb the cost or pass some or all of it to customers. In May, a study from the Federal Reserve found that tariffs in effect could cost the average family $831 a year.

In July, new tariffs imposed under Trump have added $27.2 billion to the Treasury, with more than 75% of that coming from the taxes that U.S. importers pay on Chinese-made goods

At the same time, U.S. exports to China fell 19% in July from a year earlier to $10.9 billion; That means U.S. companies are shipping fewer goods to what is still one of the world's fastest-growing markets.

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He ****ed over the coastal elites by wiping hIs ass with the TPP!

Buahahaha

America first! America first!

So who wants my 100% pure American pork?

 

Whoa, who would have thought that tariffs would really hurt the businesses (and then the consumer)??