Schiff: Trump Using Tariffs to Get Others to Do More on Border, Fentanyl Is Victimhood

Breitbart ^ | 03/05/2025 | Ian hatchett

[piusv]

Sorry. I need to take some time to digest. I’ll be back! :-)

[rlmorel]

Of course...!

[Tammy8]

Both Mexico and Canada have looked the other way on the issues of drugs and illegals, knowing they were just flowing through heading to the US. Their attitude has been it is not their problem and they have allowed both drugs and illegals to easily flow through to the US.

Ironically both countries are tough to enforce the laws against both drugs and illegals when they are intended for their countries and not just flowing through to the US.

[gitmo]

Interesting chart. I would have thought Japan had a bigger slice of the pie.

[airborne]

Funny, I thought Carrot and stick was a staple of US diplomacy/foreign affairs for ever, and used by both republican and democrat administrations

With Biden it was carrot and more carrot, mostly for America's enemies.

[ridesthemiles]

HOW MUCH $$$$ IS SCHIFF MAKING OFF FENTANYL???

[SunkenCiv]

What a bug-eyed, perjury-suborning, anti-American, anti-democratic, lying ******* Schiff for Brains is.

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[kawhill]

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA). I wondered one time whether Adam sits or stands when he has to go pee.

[rlmorel]

Me too! But...it might have been only that month of November 2024.

[Jacquerie]

My hope is that the new Deputy Director of the FBI, Dan Bongino, will take the censured and presidentially pardoned POS to a grand jury.

There, I trust he will commit perjury.

[piusv]

OK, so this does seem to make sense to me. Thank you.

Is this something that will adjust over time if these countries make changes to their Fentanyl/illegal immigration behaviors? Has Trump said this?

Also, how will these tariffs affect Americans/the American economy in the short term? long term?

[rlmorel]

I can see you have honest questions that most people who don’t understand Tariffs would ask.

Yes. These things are meant as a carrot and stick. For example, if Mexico takes action to cut down the flow of illegals and Fentanyl across the border, then Trump can reduce or eliminate the Tariff on Mexican goods and services. Trump hasn’t stated that, but that is how Tariffs work, and everyone in every country understands this.

Tariffs can indeed have a deleterious effect on the US economy in the short and long term, but in the calculus of whether we should levy a tariff on another country’s goods and services, we look at what the short and long term effect on Americans and our economy if the behavior by the other country does NOT change.

For example, more than 100,000 Americans die from Fentanyl overdoses, and the majority of those people had no intention of taking a drug they could overdose on. (for example, fentanyl laced marijuana, unlaced marijuana rarely if ever causes overdose deaths and some kid takes a hit off of a joint and dies)

We do the calculation and decide what is it worth to us to reduce that number of unintentional overdoses, and they compare that to what kind of financial hit our economy might take. That is kind of how they would look at it.

So, yes. There could be short or long term ramifications on our economy, and hopefully, someone has done the calculus both in the USA, and in a country like Mexico AFTER the Tariffs have been levied.

[piusv]

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