“Tariffs are a tax on the middle class, which Republicans are supposed to oppose.”
Idiocy. Mark Levin started his program off yesterday with that mantra, and I immediately clicked him off. I have heard that a thousand times.
If that is true, then why do countries so zealously tax American imports coming into their countries when we don’t tax their imports coming into ours?
If tariffs are so crippling to a country’s economy, then why don’t all countries immediately abolish theirs?
I have been lectured to by people on this site that trade deficits are okay. It that is true, then why don’t all the countries in the world compete for larger trade deficits rather than implement tariffs to avoid them?
Morally speaking, if it is okay for other nations to implement tariffs, then why is it so wrong for the United States to implement tariffs?
And what moral right do you have to dictate to me from who and how much I pay for steel? If you aren’t part of the transaction it’s none of your damn business.
Tariffs are a tax....on everybody. They rarely accomplish what their proponents claim.
We no longer use “Real Money” and we are exchanging bookkeeping entries for hard goods. Sooner or later for those bookkeeping entries to be of any use to their holders they will need to bring them back to exchange them for something tangible. Think of a dollar bill as a check written on an account. If you hold that check you will want to deposit it or cash it in, otherwise it is just a slip of paper.
If that is true, then why do countries so zealously tax American imports coming into their countries when we don’t tax their imports coming into ours?
Isn’t that why Walmart thrives? I believe in low prices and if we put a tariff on imports, our low prices go out the window. As a retiree I must shop low prices.
you’re not supposed to ask that stuff