El Pit wrote on Oct 19, 2024, 08:34:
Mashiki Amiketo wrote on Oct 18, 2024, 22:42:
Saboth wrote on Oct 18, 2024, 20:11:
Some of were shopping for appliances when Trump's Tariffs hit in his first term. Prices went up several hundred dollars almost overnight, across the board.
Sounds like a good reason for you to support local manufacturing and blue-collar jobs.
Sure, just pay the workers higher wages to afford the higher prices of the products. But this would increase the prices even more, but even higher wages will fix this, but OH NO this would lead to even higher prices, so about even higher wages? And so on. Selling more expensive products on the global market will also be rather difficult.
Take the money from the already vastly overpaid executive class and shareholders. There's more than enough to go around, it's just a tiny percentage of people hoarding it all like fucking dragons. I don't have a problem with people getting rich. I do when it's done by not paying their fair share - or any at all - or worse still actually get tax subsidies on top of not paying taxes. Trump killed the TPP and you should count your lucky fucking stars for that. Hillary wanted to ratify it. Never forget that. That would have been the final nail in the coffin of the American worker. Tariffs are good. It makes those rich parasites move production here. America was never stronger or better for most then when it had strong protectionism and unions. People bitch about bringing manufacturing home. Tariffs are how it's done. Short term pain for long term gain. The Dems want to hollow out what's left of American manufacturing.
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