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Why the tariffs are bad news for America and for Donald Trump
The Hill ^ | 06/02/19 10:00 AM EDT | Douglas Schoen

Posted on 06/02/2019 11:27:02 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

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To: Cobra64
Those Americans why may, possibly experience a price increase on a tomato or asparagus speer should be willing to take the 39 cent for their country.

Tomatoes and asparagus are OK, but don't mess with my avocados dammit!

/s

41 posted on 06/02/2019 1:29:23 PM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: bigbob

Doug Schoen hired her????

Whatever for????

I cannot abide that woman!

She is VERY HARD to look at and IMPOSSIBLE to listen to!

How she EVER got a job in broadcasting is beyond my ken!

If she shows up on a program I am watching - immediate click to something else!


42 posted on 06/02/2019 1:42:20 PM PDT by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Point for Team Miller!


43 posted on 06/02/2019 1:49:44 PM PDT by cdcdawg (If white, western culture makes you feel out of place, THAT IS BECAUSE IT IS NOT YOUR PLACE!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The tariffs are only bad news for people who sell Chicom crapola.


44 posted on 06/02/2019 1:52:21 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Fascism and socialism are cousins. They both disarm their citizens.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Illegal aliens cost taxpayers $155 BILLION a year directly and untold costs in deaths, undercut wages, illegal drugs smuggled in, etc.


45 posted on 06/02/2019 3:20:30 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Where does it say in the Constitution anyone is entitled to the property another has labored for?)
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To: LS

And the donkey urine the Mexicans call beer


46 posted on 06/02/2019 10:26:38 PM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: rockrr

What happened to California avocados?


47 posted on 06/02/2019 10:27:32 PM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: central_va; LS

If the guacamole industry went belly up, it’d be a great opportunity to get into some urban farming, where they take old warehouses and turn them into giant indoor grow houses. Start those up, around the country and start supplying all the tex-mex restaurants and cut the mexican’s out of that market, we’ll see some sh*t start happening.

I think there are more than a handful of products and industries that currently come out of Mexico, that could easily be done in the US.


48 posted on 06/03/2019 2:16:36 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yep - them and the concern trolls who echo Chicken Little....the Trump economy is strong enough to withstand the “application of leverage” President Trump has opted for in the face of a do-nothing Congress...


49 posted on 06/03/2019 3:19:49 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: mountainlion
The USA used to be funded by tariffs before income tax appropriated our money.

If you wanted to go back to that you would have to place a 250% tariff on every item imported.

50 posted on 06/03/2019 3:29:47 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: qaz123

A small import tariff is not going to make any industry or ag product go “belly up”.


51 posted on 06/03/2019 4:21:51 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

For the short term , sure it will be a little bitter but for the long run ,these tariffs all have lasting ,positive effects on the US economy if they accomplish the goals they are intended to, which imho they will. These countries like China and Mexico will talk tough but fold eventually. Anyone ways otherwise is kinda clueless. If you think these tariffs will hurt the US ,think about what damage they have on the shithole countries theyve been slapped on.


52 posted on 06/03/2019 5:10:34 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: central_va

A small one, NO.

I’m just thinking that if the Mexican’s feel like playing games, which they can ill afford, or the border just gets shut down completely, which it should, there’s always a way to make up the difference.


53 posted on 06/03/2019 6:05:06 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: kaktuskid

My (little) joke.

Several months ago we tried temporarily closing the border but people got upset, saying that the avocado market would tank and the price would go through the roof.

It was an absurd thing to focus on (of all the things possibly affected) so I thought it an appropriate mock-worthy rallying cry.


54 posted on 06/03/2019 6:05:40 AM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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