I simply do not understand why trump is defending Tarriff`s, its like he doesn't understand the effect this will have to the folks who voted for him simply because prices at HEB were too high, couple that with getting rid of the folks who pick the fruits and veggies which will drive up prices I just dont see the end game...............................wait , are you telling me he is much smarter than all the folks who say this is bad, I am sure someone close to him will inform him and tell him it's a bad idea
Agreed, that will work for his maga crowd, but for the simple voter who voted for him to get there PB and Jelly cheaper at HEB, will be screwed
The Maga crowd will be screwed also because maga crowd needs to buy groceries also. The problem is the Maga crowd will be angry at Juan mowing their lawn and not their political leaders and a few of them will decide to go ahead and shoot up an El Paso Walmart killing many Latino people in revenge.
only reason why I think Trump won’t enact a lot of his terrible policy positions is because big business and the billionaire class won’t allow it…they just want tax breaks and stability, not complete and utter chaos Deporting the millions of undocumented immigrants they rely on? Over their dead body we’ll see how much of these tariffs he really ends up enacting
I was reading somebody somehwere who made the point that the fact that "Tariffs" are called "Tariffs" instead of "National Sales Tax on imported goods" which is what they actually are is the reason why people don't realize how bad they'd be.
Sam, you are confused again. Lawyers are notoriously ignorant on economic matters. A major reason why Trump won was because Democrats raised government spending by TRILLIONS which directly led to inflation (issuance of debt to finance the budget deficit, thereby increasing the money supply). When the money supply increases by 60% in four years, then it's obviously going to require more dollars to buy the same amount of goods. This is inflation. Musk + Trump are going to SLASH government spending and government bureaucracy. This will bring inflation DOWN. The American voting public understands that Democrats were responsible for our country's inflation. They also believe in Trump's approach to stopping inflation in its tracks. GOOD DAY
https://www.investopedia.com/us-debt-by-president-dollar-and-percentage-7371225 Ooops sorry to rain on your lying parade, but Trump added more than 6 trillion to the debt in just 4 years. DD
You are forced to misrepresent the situation because the fact simply aren't on your side. Examine the track records of Trump and Biden. Covid had a massive impact on the final tally of the Trump years... but Biden ramped up spending and deficits to never before seen levels. And that's what caused inflation... and caused Trump's most recent election victory. Here's some data for you to gobble up, rookie. They obviously didn't teach much Econ at Southwest Texas State! Fiscal Year Total Spending (in Trillions USD) 2016 3.85 2017 3.98 2018 4.11 2019 4.45 2020 6.55 [Covid] 2021 7.25 [Begin Biden] 2022 6.01 2023 6.13 2024 (Estimated) 6.75 Fiscal Year Budget Deficit (in Trillions USD) 2017 0.665 2018 0.779 2019 0.984 2020 3.132 [Covid] 2021 2.772 [Begin Biden] 2022 1.375 2023 1.700 2024 1.800 OWNED
Even Fox disagrees with you. https://www.foxbusiness.com/politic...ow-much-debt-grow-under-biden-trump-terms.amp
Much of our softwood (the stuff 2x4’s are made out of) comes from Canada. I’m already getting ready for a slowdown in construction. We already have a tight market for material and labor. Adding tariffs and deporting a chunk of the labor force isn’t going to make it easy.
Also to add Trump’s signature trade bill his last presidency was negotiating and ratifying the US Mexico Canada trade deal (revamped NAFTA). His last presidency made more trade with those countries possible.
Food from Mexico (there is a lot of it) and lumber from Canada will now cost 25% more. Folks, that is recession inducing level of change. Mexico is a bigger trade partner than China, fwiw
dizzing height of willful ignorance. you omitted to addressed how the seeds for inflation pressure were panted the ill-conceived trade war started by Trump, which caused global supply chain bottlenecks, which increase the cost of goods Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, which led to increase in the cost of cereal/wheat and oil stop making up crap, this is just stupid https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_m2_money_supply#:~:text=US M2 Money Supply is,2.61% from one year ago. M2 was 19.36 T when Biden took office; it is now ~~21.22, an increase of 9% in 4 yrs to support a GDP growth of over 13% you conveniently ommited employment/jobs created in his 4 years, Trump lost 2 millions jobs in his first 46 months, Biden has gained over 16 million jobs
Thank goodness it won’t affect many people. It’s not like we trade much with Canada and Mexico. Not like they are our biggest trading partners in the world. It will be fine. Won’t be anymore inflation so no worries here.
Typical deception -- COVID caused a major drop in jobs at the end of Trump's term. 9 million jobs were lost in 2020 because of blue states shutting down primarily. And the "jobs" that were created by Biden were the rehiring of those people (and illegals). Why can't the left ever be honest? Shame on you. Did you think people wouldn't put this together?
