[Jarhead9297]

I’m voting for the guy but remind me again how tarrifs create jobs exactly when there are over 16,000 today? So the government gets to pick the winners and losers in the marketplace? Please share what precise product we will impose tarrifs on and against which country? Additionally share the number of jobs said tarrifs would produce (the importation of x number from said country to the creation of ours).

Government regulations and corporate tax rates are what’s killing jobs here, certainly not the lack of government imposed tarrifs. But hey it’s a movement and tarrifs sound so cool

[central_va]

The USA may have tariffs on the books but tariffs collect less than 1% on the dollar of imported goods. Free Traders ought to try and tel the truth sometimes. It would be refreshing.

[central_va]

Oh yeah and Smoot Hawley had nothing to do with the Depression. Look it up in historical texts.

[iontheball]

I’m voting for the guy but remind me again how tarrifs create jobs exactly when there are over 16,000 today? So the government gets to pick the winners and losers in the marketplace? Please share what precise product we will impose tarrifs on and against which country? Additionally share the number of jobs said tarrifs would produce (the importation of x number from said country to the creation of ours).
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This is one of the most idiotic arguments out there. Currently every major international trader has tariffs or other self-imposed restrictions including currency manipulation that is crushing American goods and business ventures trying to enter foreign economies while we stupidly pretend this is great for our businesses and economy. Now, Levin wants more of the same huge trade deficits and rails against Trump for wanting to level the playing field. Levin sits there and pretends there are no trade wars going on just because we refuse to fight back against those taking advantage of us and bleeding us dry.

[YogicCowboy]

You are ignoring two realities:

1) Crony capitalism, which picks winners and losers even more reliably than tariffs.

2) The fact that so-called free trade is only free to the other side; they get to do whatever they want to us.

Those in power do not want to fix the problems; they want to exacerbate them.

[higgmeister]

I’m voting for the guy but remind me again how tarrifs create jobs exactly when there are over 16,000 today? So the government gets to pick the winners and losers in the marketplace? Please share what precise product we will impose tarrifs on and against which country? Additionally share the number of jobs said tarrifs would produce (the importation of x number from said country to the creation of ours).

Government regulations and corporate tax rates are what’s killing jobs here, certainly not the lack of government imposed tarrifs. But hey it’s a movement and tarrifs sound so cool

So, you have come out to support the Confederate States of America's position on slavery, I see.

I will listen to you when you factor into your figures the Chinese communist slave labor wages and unbalanced state controlled regulatory and infrastructure costs that will forever bankrupt our nation unless something is done to thwart it.

Unchecked we will regress into socialist control just like the Commies we have fought against for over a hundred years.

[lewislynn]

If we simply threaten tariffs on those countries/products that have no problem imposing tariffs or even blocking our products from entering their country maybe they'll change their ways...if not we impose the tariffs.

Simple logic is your friend. Learn it love it.

[ZULU]

Trump is not calling for tafiffs as a revenue source. He isn’t calling for tariffs per se at all. What he is saying is that NAFTA and TPP and unfair job stealing deals and the only people who profit from them are globalist corporations, the handful of wealthy people who run them, their political clients in Congress like Ryan, McConnell et al and the gangster thugs who run other countries like Mexico and China. He wants deals which benefit Americans and America.