Posted on 02/10/2025 8:29:30 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Heck yes! Winning!
Bring manufacturing back.
Instead of high tariffs, I recommend five-year Freight on Board warrants to be handed to the US government, to be adjusted for CPI.
If some foreign company is dumping steel, then the federal government would be able to get money by selling its warrants.
A modest tariff to adjust for US/Chinese wage differentials, adjusted for shipping costs, would be fine with me too.
China dumped huge amounts of aluminum right at the border with Mexico.
I don’t see the general need for Canadian stuff to be tariffed.
Canada has similar wages and regulations as the USA.
Trump should work with the Canadian government for bilateral zero tariffs.
There is some issue with provincial stumpage rates I believe.
If the US market sector stumpage rate is say 20 cents a board foot and the Canadian shipping costs are 5 cents a board foot more, then the Canadian stumpage rate should be 15 cents a board foot (or the Canadians should expect a compensating tariff).
I don’t see the general need for Canadian stuff to be tariffed.
I don’t see the general need for Canada to tariff our stuff; yet, they do.
This one will likely hurt me personally.
Trying launch my modest machine shop and will be needing raw materials.
Prices are already so high that I have actually bought finished products to strip them of material I needed.
Yes, you can buy import product cheaper than raw material.
If that does not show the disparity I don’t what would.
This EO needs to be accompanied by one directing the NRC to get off their fat posteriors and start green-lighting up to date Nuclear plants.
Off-Peak use them to smelt Aluminum, Steel, and crack Hydrogen.
This would actually be a very “Green” thing to do and would WORK!
“fentanyl smuggling”
Fentanyl is so potent it can probably be sprayed on a blank sheet of paper and the paper soaked to extract the fentanyl.
The war on opiates has been lost.
Opiates need to be made available to addicts in highly diluted form - two-liter bottles.
A yellow color might indicate a non-lethal to normal person concentration and a deep red color a highly-lethal except to an addict concentration.
To buy from a vendor would require hospital testing and a prescription. The addict might also be required to identify as an addict on E-Verify and/or a state site.
Employers required to provide workman’s compensation should have the right to check such a site and not take on the addict.
Addiction must be accepted just as homosexuality is.
No insurance company should be required by any law to pay for addiction ‘treatment’. Junkies will get high until they die.
I predict none of these tariffs will have to be active for long. They will lead to deals that will be fair to the USA. Trump is leveling the playing field.
You’d think we would have learned this after the first Trump administration, when these tariffs prompted one of the major auto manufacturers (Mazda, I think) to cancel its plan to open a new auto manufacturing facility in Kentucky or Tennessee.
“I don’t see the general need for Canada to tariff our stuff; yet, they do.”
And Team Trump needs to work on that problem.
Start non-union plants, there is a start.
Funny thing is when Trump tells them we’ll place tariff’s on other nations’ goods they tend to “blink” and drop theirs.
Its much more effective than a temper-tantrum.
Until Kanada takes back every illegal alien invader that they aided crossing the U.S. border, all their stuff needs to be tariffed.
The Kanadian government went out of their way to facilitate illegal aliens reaching the U.S.
“Funny thing is when Trump tells them we’ll place tariff’s on other nations’ goods they tend to “blink” and drop theirs.”
It’s my understanding that tariffs are still applied on a wide variety of Chinese goods. As far as I know, Xi hasn’t blinked.
It’s my understanding that tariffs are still applied on a wide variety of Chinese goods. As far as I know, Xi hasn’t blinked.
US companies who send production to China for the cheap prison labor blink when their price of doing business increases exponentially.
That’s why Shark Tank’s Mark Cuban hates Trump.
“The Kanadian government went out of their way to facilitate illegal aliens reaching the U.S.”
I’m aware of that problem, but not of its size.
I consider facilitating the invasion of the USA to be an act of war.
“Until Kanada takes back every illegal alien invader that they aided crossing the U.S. border, all their stuff needs to be tariffed.”
Even if Canada took them back, they’d recross into the USA.
The Canadian government needs to be made to pay for the invaders it enabled. Tariffs are not my preference, but they are the option that is already on the table.
Post 19 tells about the Biden Tariffs..
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