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Klobuchar: Biden-Harris Have Been Strong on ‘Keeping’ Tariffs, Trump’s Would Be a Tax
Breitbart ^ | 09/30 | Ian hatchett

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bidenharris; klobuchar; lol; tariffs; trump
That is some first class stupid
1 posted on 09/30/2024 6:17:02 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yeah, but as I said elsewhere our RINOs keep falling for it.


2 posted on 09/30/2024 6:21:22 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They aren’t even trying to obfuscate the BS anymore.


3 posted on 09/30/2024 6:22:29 PM PDT by posterchild
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A tariff is a tax...............


4 posted on 09/30/2024 6:27:59 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Uuuh, the existing tariffs they’re keeping are Trump tariffs

Is Klobuchar one of the dumbest women in politics?


5 posted on 09/30/2024 6:28:52 PM PDT by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: silverleaf

That is a dumb question. Of course she is.


6 posted on 09/30/2024 6:34:24 PM PDT by jimpick
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To: Red Badger

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


7 posted on 09/30/2024 6:38:06 PM PDT by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: silverleaf

“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.


8 posted on 09/30/2024 6:39:46 PM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What drugs are these people on?!


9 posted on 09/30/2024 6:40:41 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: silverleaf

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’..............


10 posted on 09/30/2024 6:42:41 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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.


11 posted on 09/30/2024 7:43:34 PM PDT by Bob Wills is still the king (Just a Texas Playboy at heart!)
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To: quantim

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.


12 posted on 09/30/2024 8:02:03 PM PDT by Fireone ("and dumb & silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter." G. Washington 1783)
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To: silverleaf

Yes, she is. She’s up there with fauxcahontas and AOC.


13 posted on 09/30/2024 8:23:37 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: AndyJackson

They don’t fall for it, they’re in on it.


14 posted on 09/30/2024 8:43:44 PM PDT by abbastanza (Oh boy. Can’t wait. Go nuts kids)
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To: quantim

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.”


15 posted on 09/30/2024 9:31:26 PM PDT by definitelynotaliberal (I believe it! He's alive! Sweet Jesus!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yup, they invented the term ‘blithering idiot’ for people like her.


16 posted on 09/30/2024 9:41:39 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Chinese market is red hot right now.


17 posted on 09/30/2024 9:57:40 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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