Posted on 09/30/2024 6:17:02 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “ReidOut,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) stated that the Biden-Harris administration has “been very strong on” Chinese steel dumping “and keeping those tariffs in place.” But 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump’s tariff proposal “would amount to this tax, as opposed to using it, when necessary, with specific industries and specific countries.”
Klobuchar began by saying, “Donald Trump’s proposal would [amount] to a $4,000 national sales tax on every American family.”
Host Joy Reid then said, “People are literally calling what Trump is trying to initiate a tequila tax. Because I don’t think people fully understand, a massive tariff like what McKinley had…what you’re talking about is, your imported tequila, your imported beer that comes from Mexico, your imported beer from Germany, and your TVs, your video game systems, all of it goes up by the percentage of that tax — of that tariff.”
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Yeah, but as I said elsewhere our RINOs keep falling for it.
They aren’t even trying to obfuscate the BS anymore.
A tariff is a tax...............
Uuuh, the existing tariffs they’re keeping are Trump tariffs
Is Klobuchar one of the dumbest women in politics?
That is a dumb question. Of course she is.
You do understand that China is a mercantilist economy the govt props up with trillions of dollars to subsidize their industries to keep prices artificially low, with the strategic goal of eliminating competitors ( once they achieve monopoly control they can charge what they want)
Tariffs level the playing field to keep our domestic producers in business. Trump is aware of the economic and strategic necessity of keeping a strong manufacturing base in the US
If the Chinese and others want to avoid tariffs, they can open factories here in the US, close to their market, and employ American labor
“Is Klobuchar one of the dumbest women in politics?”
Recall this nitwit announced her run for president outside ranting about global warming while snowflakes were landing on her, she gives Harris a run for the money on who has the lower IQ.
What drugs are these people on?!
Yes, of course. For the first 130 years of this country, government was mainly funded through tariffs and nobody complained because practically all countries did it as well.
Then they discovered ‘INCOME TAXES’..............
PDJT has repeatedly said he plans to impose a 10% import tariff on every item imported into the USA from abroad. Should he be successful, it would at that 10% to consumer prices across the board.
I agree, they’re on a pretty equal par.
Harris makes an ass of herself trying to sound intelligent.
Klobuchar doesn’t even try to sound intelligent, she can’t.
Yes, she is. She’s up there with fauxcahontas and AOC.
They don’t fall for it, they’re in on it.
After a tornado touched down somewhere in MN, she showed up at the scene, talked with people and then declared that she was going to seek federal disaster relief because, “It is the role of government to make people happy.”
Yup, they invented the term ‘blithering idiot’ for people like her.
Chinese market is red hot right now.
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