Posted on 04/04/2025 9:31:41 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Move over, Smoot and Hawley. President Trump has anointed himself America’s greatest protectionist, and he’s launching a global trade war to prove it.
On Wednesday, Trump slapped a minimum 10 percent tariff on all imports, plus additional “reciprocal” tariffs on 60 other countries that have the temerity to sell us things we want to buy. He dubbed it “Liberation Day” to mark the freeing of Americans from the supposedly oppressive burden of trading with others.
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Flame away Rand Paul, globalists.
Eff em. All of em.
They want to fight? Then throw down and see what that gets them
BTW, corn is up on the futures.
Tariffs are a huge deglobalization move, especially by the world’s largest economy. Every country for itself.
I’m braced for short term pain and it’s worth every cent to not see Kamala and Tim in office. Can you imagine waking up every morning and seeing them on the news?
And here's another.
Trump’s tariffs are a quack remedy for a real socioeconomic problem: The disappearance of manufacturing jobs with good pay and benefits since the 1970s has hit working families hard, even as the country as a whole has prospered.
If the country as a whole has prospered, then why do we have a 4 trillion dollar deficit? What would have happened if we didn't raise the debt ceiling last year just to pay the interest on all of the money we borrowed?
They always want us behind the 8 ball and be the world’s dumping ground and piggy bank. We need to bring all manufacturing home and let the rest of the world use their slave labor goods. We can afford to pay a bit more.
Aww . . . where was Will Marshall back in 1996 when Pelosi was talking exactly the same way as Trump is now, with respect to Red China?
Anything new frightens those stricken with the “chicken little “ syndrome.
We’re 36 trillion in debt and the interest is increasing that terribly
We’re on our way to poorer The hill is so wrapped in TDS they don’t see we’re on our way to poor to a point of losing our independence
Trump will come and go but this won’t. They’re idiots
Just another doomsayer. This is NOT “Smoot-Hawley” strategy, not even kinda sorta.
Trump is just negotiating on a grand scale, getting OTHER nations to recognize that tariffs have consequences, not only for the rest of the world, but for their own purposes as well.
This is supposed to damage ONLY the US and nobody else? Guess again, Trump promises to apply the tariffs, then almost immediately, he gives the affected national entities an option as to how to AVOID the tariffs.
Because this is going to drive up prices. Subsidized corn from foreign countries will be more expensive now.
The article is correct though. Prices on most things are going up. Maybe significantly in the short term.
While I support this, I also realize it will most likely end up be very unpopular. Joe and Jane six pack will get hurt when all the stuff at Walmart jumps 30-50%.
So stop "wanting to buy" throw away junk! Buying $50 microwaves from Walmart has hurt us way more than these tariffs will. Do a little research. Before we had an income tax, this country used to pay its bills with tariffs.
Funny how demonicRATS don’t give a flying fig about how their tax increases will make things more expensive 🤔
The Hill….’nuff said.
The politicians from 1975 to date, that sold you on the idea this is a good thing, need to be strung up. A car can't be built here or anywhere, without a car seat that was built in Mexico. Really.
Panic !
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Beans and Bread !
If there were a war, America would be bare-footed in a year.
I hope wheat follows it. It would be nice if our family farm in OK actually made a little more money than the pocket change it currently makes.
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