But I disagree. The point of tariffs, from our point of view, is to eliminate or lower tariffs already imposed by our trading partners. They already put tariffs on our goods. Trump says, take yours down and we’ll take ours down. But we had to put some in place to be able to make that offer.
Since they sell more to us than we sell to them, they can’t really hurt us by further raising tariffs on us. At some point they have no choice but to make a deal. Or, we simply get the same product from somewhere else.
Canada is the equivalent of a remora that attaches itself to the side of a shark. The American “shark” needs to rub off the Canadian remora and see just how long it survives without the ability to suck the life out of us. The imposition of tariffs when you are the big customer, is just a means to get the other guy’s attention. Actually, this goes for the rest of the world for that matter. We have been the world’s sucker for so long, we’ve forgotten just what economic power we have.
Yes, there is good and bad about tariffs.
They impost 270% on our dairy. There must be some tariff that would hit them hard, STRATEGIC tariffs, that we could later easily remove.
Exactly. I generally love Walt Williams, but he is up in years and I am so tired of those accusing Trump of being a misunderstanding yahoo for making the threats he’s making — expressly to finally get a level playing field, instead of US companies having to bear more tariffs to export than other companies deal with importing here.
The asymmetric tariffs do hurt the American worker more than anybody, and that is what Trump is working to address. God bless our president for all the crap he has to put up with.
But I disagree. The point of tariffs, from our point of view, is to eliminate or lower tariffs already imposed by our trading partners. They already put tariffs on our goods. Trump says, take yours down and we’ll take ours down. But we had to put some in place to be able to make that offer.
Since they sell more to us than we sell to them, they can’t really hurt us by further raising tariffs on us. At some point they have no choice but to make a deal. Or, we simply get the same product from somewhere else.
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I love Dr Williams, however, I disagree, too.
Also, where in the article is the ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION...I hate posted stuff that leaves out the punch line. “oh, you should read the whole thing”...no, I shouldn’t; I take in a ton of info and if I do that, I don’t have time to read ad infinitum.