I’m just curious whether low IQ Trumpanzees will be able to understand that voting Dump and his insane tariffs in will be the the economic equivalent of pissing into the wind. Voting against your interests and loudly boasting about has been a favourite right wing pastime!
Brilliant move by Trump. The tariff war with neighbors on both borders will just piss off those citizens and in their future elections will vote in communist or otherwise autocratic regimes that will reject US trade and become enemies. Nice long range thinking imminent PO(tu)S.
(a) drug cartels are going to ship their customers, in bulk, fatal doses? burger king might be killing its customers but it goes out of business if one burger gives you a heart attack. if you follow.
(b) that if you trim back some coyote work the cartels go out of business? they are drug cartels. the ability to control the geography allowing the coyote sideline comes from the drug side of the business. do i for a second believe that reducing their sideline puts the other segment so profitable they can control whole swathes of land with tech and armament, at any risk of bankruptcy?
(c) you folks have been sold a bill of goods. 70-80% of illegals drive through a port of entry, get a visa, and then overstay it. likewise, most of the drugs are coming in vehicles and not being backpacked across the border by folks who want to find border guards and claim asylum.
no, as john oliver pointed out the other night, we say that black folks doing drugs have cultural issues. we say that white folks doing drugs have addiction issues and blame someone else, eg, cartels. the cartels would have no market if john smith didn't want weed or black market pills or stuff that is cut with fentanyl. at some point admit your own guilt.
A. Do some research on MS-13.
B. Cartels annual human trafficking revenue grew from about half a billion a year in 2018 to $13 billion a year in 2022. Again, do some research.
C. Never used recreational drugs in my life. Just because you use drugs does not mean everyone else is doing it.
25% tariffs on anyone is NOT gonna happen. His threat of them on Day One though will get Mexico to negotiate immediately and we'll both be winners. Just Mexico not as much.
Wal-mart and other retailers have already said they will pass the tariffs on to the consumer. So is the plan here to punish the American consumer by raising prices to somehow try and prove a point to Mexico? What?
The strategy is to punish Mexico by disencentivizing the purchase of Mexican products until they build a wall and stop drug smuggling.
Mexicans will starve before Americans will.
But remember, Elon said this will only be "temporary hardship", once Mexico does what Trump says we can stop eating cat food and go back to normal!
So, we are going to attack illegal immigration from Mexico by starving working class Mexicans who rely on manufacturing and agricultural jobs that export to the US. And they will all just sit around in Mexico and not try to come to the US to work in the jobs that they used to have?
Trump's tariffs are purely performative. He will renegotiate the USMCA to include some vague language about immigration and drug trafficking, drop the tariffs and claim victory even though nothing will have changed.
Alternatively, if a trade war ensues that cannot be resolved through negotiations, tariffs will become a de facto national sales tax that will allow Trump to continue to provide massive tax breaks for his billionaire buddies without further blowing up the deficit.
...tariffs will become a de facto national sales tax that will allow Trump to continue to provide massive tax breaks for his billionaire buddies....
And this is the essence of it. Individual businesses and industries can request exemptions from tariffs. That's a long-standing policy, under all administrations, designed to keep American businesses from being unduly harmed by blanket tariffs.
But under Trump, all of this will be transactional. Quid pro quo. "If we give you an exemption, what will you give us?"
Crony capitalism, in other words. Bucks for billionaires, funded by American suckers taxpayers.
LoL.....The self loathing Dimms hate their country so much that they are HOPING Trump fails and the country suffers. Listen to them grousing and whining like little impotent eunuchs.
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