YES!!! How any limited-government conservative could possibly support Trump's trade policy is beyond me. My money is my money, and Ford's factories are Ford's factories. It's none of the government's d*mn business where I spend my money or where Ford builds its factories.
And also, it misses the point that when Ford (or any other manufacturer) builds a plant in Mexico (or elsewhere), they do so because it is cheaper to manufacture there than here. Adding a punitive tariff does not change that. So, either Ford is going to still build the plant there (in which case the price of Fords will increase by the amount of the tariff), or they will build the plant here, and the price of Fords will increase to account for the added cost of manufacturing here. Either way, prices rise.
Funny George Washington signed the very first law passed by the first congress . The Tariff Act of 1789.
That President Washington was a big government guy for sure. /sarc
You assume that Ford passes on any decreased production cost to the consumer. What a fool you are. Idiot Free Traitors™ sum will kill us all in the end.
You are selectively picking your facts here. Many members of nafta subsidies their products through government subsidies and currency devaluation. This makes their products cheep here in the USA and American products very expensive. Hence the trade deficits. The trade agreements were sold as leveling the playing field, but in truth they tilt it dramatically away from American products. nafta and other trade agreements that our government has signed us up for, both republican and democrats, are based on a one world government model.