Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: MtnClimber

I don’t find it difficult to understand the tariff strategy. What is wrong with leftists?


2 posted on 08/06/2025 5:31:38 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: MtnClimber

Tariffs are a tool.

Results depend on the skill and the motivation of the person wielding the tool.

Trump uses the tool benefit the US.

Deep State uses it to harm the US.


4 posted on 08/06/2025 5:36:35 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies ]

To: MtnClimber

“understand the tariff strategy.”

It’s logical... and it works ...
the left can’t understand those concepts.

Trump has been a step ahead on every play.
I wondered about a few calls ... but had faith .. and sure enough .... BOOM .

by the way ..... I voted for this .... you can thank me later..(kidding)


7 posted on 08/06/2025 5:39:43 AM PDT by 1of10 (be vigilant , be strong, be safe, be 1 of 10 .)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies ]

To: MtnClimber

“What’s wrong with leftists?”

What isn’t?

That aside, tariffs are to prevent poaching of markets by making the imported product high enough in cost to justify starting or expanding production domestically. It would be an ideal situation if each country were sufficiently self-supporting to provide all basic needs with no imports, as food, fiber, medicine, machine tools and energy sources, with only luxury goods, or personal preferences (a sort of snob appeal) in foreign goods really affected by tariffs.

But this is not an ideal world. Some products cannot be produced domestically, and by definition, have to be imported if they are important to the economy. This makes the importing country a vassal state to the exporting country, suffering every whim of the master state.

Side note - almost every product out there has a substitute for a specific purpose, and these substitutes can be engineered or adapted from existing purposes.


9 posted on 08/06/2025 5:45:10 AM PDT by alloysteel (Try to understand, God is not finished with me yet. Still lots of room for improvement.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies ]

To: MtnClimber

Leftists are against everything from Trump, and good for America.


19 posted on 08/06/2025 8:42:05 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson