Posted on 03/13/2025 8:52:53 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
We aren’t fans of the trade war, but blaming Trump (as the media and the Left are doing) ignores one key point: He’s right that other countries impose outrageous tariffs on American exports.
Is there a path to reciprocal low or zero rates? We wouldn’t count Trump out. One idea we like would be to start immediately with a zero-zero trade agreement with Argentina, which Javier Milei is reportedly interested in. That would knock our trading partners off their high horse.
There is not a single thing Canada produces that we cannot produce here in the US.
>> [PDJT is] right that other countries impose outrageous tariffs on American exports.
EGG-zackly!
What if the long-term outcome of President Trump’s tariff increases is to actually REDUCE tariffs worldwide, thus resulting in a more level playing field for all nations?? Wonder what the whining “free trader” globalist douchebags would have to say THEN... ???
It gets back down to MERITOCRACY. Individuals and NATIONS that excel, win! Individuals and NATIONS that focus on ephemera like DEI and “climate change” LOSE. Do we want to support ideas and ideologies that WIN? or would we prefer those that LOSE?
Get off your ass and COMPETE. Applies to individuals, SCHOOL DISTRICTS, candidates, corporations, nations, ... !!!
Maybe I am wrong but I read this graphic as
which products/industries these countries are protecting/encouraging.
Canada is protecting/encouraging their dairy producers.
Japan is protecting/encouraging their rice producers.
India is protecting/encouraging their liquor producers. (???)
The EU is protecting/encouraging their mushroom and truffle producers.
India is protecting/encouraging their car producers.
etc., etc., etc.
What are we protecting/encouraging?
“What are we protecting/encouraging?”
Until now apparently nothing.
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Many of those places have cultural tariffs. Not so much in money, but their people will not buy Anerica.
And EVERY TARIFF SHOWN is because of previous trade agreements both parties signed.
There is only ONE truth when it comes to treaties with the USA.
When they are no longer neutral or to the US advantage, the USA has always shown absolutely ZERO interest in abiding by their agreements, no matter how much the other side was inconvenienced by the original “deal”.
Just ask the Numerous Indian tribes about how trustworthy the US government is when it come to negotiations...
Oh, and what about the Treaty of Ghent? Why are there US warships trolling the Great Lakes now, since 9/11?
Maybe I am wrong but I read this graphic as
which products/industries these countries are protecting/encouraging.
Canada is protecting/encouraging their dairy producers.
Japan is protecting/encouraging their rice producers.
India is protecting/encouraging their liquor producers. (???)
The EU is protecting/encouraging their mushroom and truffle producers.
India is protecting/encouraging their car producers.
etc., etc., etc.
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No - you’re right.
Everybody wants to protect one or the other of their industries. I don’t have a problem with that. Not “perfect” for commerce but perfect is the enemy of “good enough”.
What bothers me is the talking heads screaming Trump Tariffs without telling the whole story. Wife watches MSNBC (yeah, can’t break her of it) and the crap they spout is simple outright lying by omission.
I turn my music up in the office sometimes to drown out the crap.
I can always go hide in the basement too.
There is a class of treaty about which you are totally wrong: Environmental treaties held at the UN that form the (unconstitutional) authority for every major environmental statute on the books. See Section 1531 of the Endangered Species Act for an example.
I am referring to peace, economic and territorail treaties, not pie-in-the-sky stuff that everyone knows are lies from the get-go.
BIG difference
Gee wiz, Stephen Moore, a devout Free Traitor™ and renowned globalist, has a moment of lucidity. Push me over with a feather.
I had a temporary contract to work in Canada for 90 days at a major hydro/electric company. I had to pay a huge temp worker tax that they failed to warn me about before hand. The immigration officials treated me like a criminal and/or international spy.
You sound like a Democrat. Why not go play with them.
Wife watches MSNBC = ground for divorce.
Japs don’t want no Uncle Ben’s rice.
I was young and dumb but didnt tariffs in late 70s early 80s give us the like of the Reliant K cars and Ford Fiestas? or was that more to do with the big 3 screwing us?
”Free Trade.” That’s what they call it when foreign countries put tariffs on us but we don’t put any on them.
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