If dropping the tariffs on these items will help consumer prices, I have some crazy ideas on what we can do to help with the prices on the rest of the items we currently have tariffs on.
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acesfull86
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Americans are suffering and we’re gonna reduce the tariffs that the export countries have been paying for!?!
chop2chip
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The kind thing would to increase the tariff other countries are paying so Trump can send BIGGER tariff “dividend” checks
acesfull86
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Hard to say. Could use some wisdom from the chief MAGA whisperer, who's never here when we need him the most.
nsacpi
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Excellent ballers versus whiners graph
Just think of all the healthcare we can buy between these dividends and the money they’re going to send to us instead of the insurance companies.
acesfull86
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Despite my libertarian politics and free speech absolutism, I have a strong desire to see these online political influences with their "BREAKING" tweets all fired into the sun. They're all insufferable.
acesfull86
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Turns out we were secretly sacrificing manufacturing to help all Americans have lower prices. My apologies to Trump and his 5D chess on affordability.
acesfull86
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https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-incoherent-tariff-message/
President Trump recently announced that he was reducing tariffs on coffee and other food items, a reversal that Charlie Cooke, on today’s edition of The Editors, cites to blast the president’s tariff policy as a whole.
“This has been from the beginning just garbage. Garbage,” Charlie says. “They can’t decide what the tariffs are for. They change that every eight minutes. . . .
“I’ve seen presidents lie. . . . I’ve seen presidents fail to grasp the subject matter. I’ve seen presidents flail around and search for different arguments, test one by one the best messaging, and then eventually settle on whatever worked. I have never seen a policy that was over and over again in repeated cycles sold on completely self-contradictory grounds,” Charlie says.
Charlie says that he knows “that people have constructed this political worldview, this economic worldview around it. I know that they try to dress it up, but Donald Trump just likes tariffs. He just likes the idea of tariffs. He has this as a presumption, his priors, and he proceeds from there. And whatever it is that needs to follow from that presumption follows. It’s not working. . . . No one’s buying this. The tariffs are not popular.
“This has just been a total disaster,” Charlie says. “It’s been a disaster practically. It’s been a messaging disaster. And although I assume that he will go scorched earth if it happens, he should be praying that the Supreme Court comes in and tells him he does not have plenary power over tariffs.”
President Trump recently announced that he was reducing tariffs on coffee and other food items, a reversal that Charlie Cooke, on today’s edition of The Editors, cites to blast the president’s tariff policy as a whole.
“This has been from the beginning just garbage. Garbage,” Charlie says. “They can’t decide what the tariffs are for. They change that every eight minutes. . . .
“I’ve seen presidents lie. . . . I’ve seen presidents fail to grasp the subject matter. I’ve seen presidents flail around and search for different arguments, test one by one the best messaging, and then eventually settle on whatever worked. I have never seen a policy that was over and over again in repeated cycles sold on completely self-contradictory grounds,” Charlie says.
Charlie says that he knows “that people have constructed this political worldview, this economic worldview around it. I know that they try to dress it up, but Donald Trump just likes tariffs. He just likes the idea of tariffs. He has this as a presumption, his priors, and he proceeds from there. And whatever it is that needs to follow from that presumption follows. It’s not working. . . . No one’s buying this. The tariffs are not popular.
“This has just been a total disaster,” Charlie says. “It’s been a disaster practically. It’s been a messaging disaster. And although I assume that he will go scorched earth if it happens, he should be praying that the Supreme Court comes in and tells him he does not have plenary power over tariffs.”