Posted on 06/02/2019 12:04:17 PM PDT by Trump20162020
Sen. Mitt Romney warned Friday that President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs against Mexico were the wrong approach and could harm Americans more than they help curtail illegal immigration.
“A tariff targeting Mexico that negatively impacts our own interests will only end in a waiting game of increasingly harmful consequence to the American people,” Romney said.
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Yeah, that second four years of 0 wasn’t that bad.“
If Mitt has won, he’d still be president. We’d never have gotten trump
Yea, avocados will go from 88 cent to 93 cents! The horror!
I think being taxed to pay for illegals is pretty dang harmful. And I think having illegals vote rats in so the benefits continue to flow is pretty dang harmful. And I think the overall lower IQ and the crime is pretty dang harmful.
Romney should STFU!
To the tune of $155 BILLION a year!
You match my voting history precisely!
Casas Grandes —what will be the impact?
If Mitt thinks its all wrong, then I’m all for it.
Romney has proven to be a real Ahole since he threw the 2012 election
(Obama said he realized he would lose and was already packing up his krap to vacate the White House, when Romney started throwing the election)
My dog was right about Mitt.
Mitt is a Mutt.
Utah would have elected Charles Manson if had been a Norman.
Spit.
Having to pay 1.25 instead of 1.00 for an avocado is not really a deathly threat to humanity.
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It not even that. Your example allows for a 25% increase at the retail level but that’s not how it works.
Tarrifs are levied on the importer. An Avocodo, using your example might cost the importer $.25 so the 25% is levied on that price and amountent to about $.06. This 6 cents will not easily be accepted by the wholesaler who buys from the importer and will in part be absorbed each of them. Let’s say the wholesaler agrees to pay half of the 6 cents making the cost to the wholesaler 50 cents plus the 3 cents tariff.
Next hr wholesaler tells the retailer the cost of Avocados has gone up 3 cents due to tariff increases. The taler says, “hell no, I won’t pay”. The wholesaler knows he can’t sit on the avocado forever so thy split the 3 cents. The retailer figures his markup at 150% on the increased cost to him of 51.5 cents instead of 50 cents. So his new retail price becomes about $1.27 instead of $1.25 and that is assuming he even bothers to raise his price considering the competition around him.
Many are frightened by the 25% number and are not familiar with the process of the assigning of tariffs to the product.
A shirt selling for 10 dollars and made in China may cost the importer about $1.50 landed in which case the 25% tariff amounts to just under 40 cents per shirt. Sure in huge lots this amounts to some money but on the retail level even IF passed along dollar for dollar the retail price is barely effected.
Got a link to that?
You were far ahead of the game.
When McCain finally beamed out, this worthless POS weaseled his way in to be the new resident idiot.
I’m so sick of ignorance.
Romney must have gotten a message from Kolob written on gold plates...
Shut up, Mutt! You’re nothing but a skidmark on Utah’s magic underwear.
I can’t believe I ever voted for Rancid Romney, way back when.
I am more worried about the imposition of Mitt Romney on the Republican Party than the imposition of tariffs by Trump on Mexico.
I question just who Mitt Romney is loyal to. Who are his constituents? It does not appear he is serving American “consumers” or citizens. Is it Mexico? The Mormon Faith? The “Chamber of Commerce”? All of the above? Or is he just playing the role of the “Anti-Trump”, setting himself up as the spoiler in 2020?
The only harmful consequence I’ve seen lately is YOU.....MUTT ROMNEY!! Thanks Utah!.......grrrr
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