Posted on 04/11/2025 12:08:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Democrats’ once-vociferous endorsement of high tariffs on foreign countries has evaporated. Fizzled. Gone kaput.
The reason: President Donald Trump’s recent imposition of tariffs, and particularly high tariffs on China, something Trump has advocated for years. Yet if Trump is for it, Democrats must oppose it, even if opposing it makes no sense.
Thus did White House spokesman Karoline Leavitt read back Representative Nancy Pelosi’s pro-tariff tirade of 1996, while others pulled up quotes from Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and socialist Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
Trump is taking heat for imposing tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and other nations in an executive order on April 2. The president laid out the reasons the targets of the import tax must pay up:
Citing the World Trade Organization, Trump explained that “the United States has among the lowest simple average [Most Favored Nation] tariff rates in the world at 3.3 percent, while many of our key trading partners like Brazil (11.2 percent), China (7.5 percent), the European Union (EU) (5 percent), India (17 percent), and Vietnam (9.4 percent) have simple average MFN tariff rates that are significantly higher.”
And some tariffs, such as those on cars, are worse than others, he continued:
Moreover, these average MFN tariff rates conceal much larger discrepancies across economies in tariff rates applied to particular products. For example, the United States imposes a 2.5 percent tariff on passenger vehicle imports (with internal combustion engines), while the European Union (10 percent), India (70 percent), and China (15 percent) impose much higher duties on the same product. For network switches and routers,...
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Surprising really that the ‘Rats in the so-called “news” media have yet to label this as “misinformation”
He needs to raise tarriffs on Brazil until they throw out Lula and put Bolsinaro back in.
demoncRATS & RINOs are cryin’ and whinin’ because Trump is making good his promises and these dipsticks know he’s right because given the low IQ of them, just can’t admit it.
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