“Trump is brilliant to buy votes with free tariff money. “
“Free” tariff money?
You mean the taxes U.S. importers paid in the form of tariffs?? You mean the price increases those importers added to their U.S. buyers, and the price increases those buyers add to the goods sold in the U.S.??; because that’s what it was, it was not “free”.
And did the tariff revenue change the federal purse from overspent to savings? No. The tariffs did not get the federal government out of having monthly deficits, with additions to the federal debt every month. No. Nothing about any of it is “free”.
Tariffs on imported goods are a new revenue source paid by exporters for the privilege of selling their product in America. If the costs are passed on to consumers rational shoppers would buy American made, tariff free, lower cost products or do without. The “experts” predicted a trade war. There is no trade war. Trump is a genius.
Pogue Colonel: Then how about getting with the program? Why don’t you jump on the team and come on in for the big win?