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  1. Merrill

    Tit for Tat Tariffs - The US versus the World

    Well Trump has a team of economic advisors who have told us what he is trying to do. From what they are saying, and what I have gathered on my own, the strategy is this 1. Implement broad-based tariffs with punitive tariffs on some countries, to generate external revenue and 2. Promote domestic...
  2. Merrill

    Trump to use wartime Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport illegal migrants from ‘enemy nations’: sources

    He just arrested a bunch of MS13 gang members on US soil He has also come down hard on antisemitic groups (which I disagree with some of this) in the US on all sides of the political spectrum what efforts do you want him to make in regards to "home-grown nutbars?" --bugging phones, arresting...
  3. Merrill

    Ben Shapiro: What The Hell Happened on LIBERATION DAY?!

    but you will believe that Trump personally looked at a map, saw some uninhabited islands, and told his trade and economic advisors "put tariffs on that place" ok
  4. Merrill

    Tit for Tat Tariffs - The US versus the World

    I don't agree with Trump's current trade policy I think he is doing too much, too soon, and some of this has not be attempted in the past. But I also disagree with people here who don't understand what he is trying to do, and are simply using the forum to launch attacks on him, make dumb jokes...
  5. Merrill

    Tit for Tat Tariffs - The US versus the World

    (off topic) neither party has been full-on free trade we have had agricultural protections, farm subsidies, and duties on imports forever but for the record: I do think Trump went way too far with this tariff thing, and would like to see it scaled back
  6. Merrill

    Ben Shapiro: What The Hell Happened on LIBERATION DAY?!

    kind of like a presidential candidate confusing or conflating Europe with the Mexican border oh wait, that already happened https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/557282-vp-harris-not-discounting-concerns-about-events-at-us-border-during/
  7. Merrill

    Ben Shapiro: What The Hell Happened on LIBERATION DAY?!

    I am not a big fan of Shapiro, who I believe is basically a self-serving Zio-con but I am not a big fan of these tariffs either: I think Trump went to far with them, too quickly (although I reject the idea that the US should never use tariffs)
  8. Merrill

    Tit for Tat Tariffs - The US versus the World

    he said "If we are considering "where" the idiocy really lies, I suggest the obvious - the voter." so how am I supposed to interpret that exactly? Sure sounds like an indictment on certain voters, and matches up with other comments Democrats have made in the last 5-10 years.
  9. Merrill

    Tit for Tat Tariffs - The US versus the World

    and this is the smug and arrogant attitude from the Dems that allowed Trump to win aka, most voters in the US are ignorant, racist, white trash while the liberal Dems are the "englightened people" keep going with that strategy and see how many more elections you win and keep nominating...
  10. Merrill

    Tit for Tat Tariffs - The US versus the World

    So if Trump is as incompetent and clownish as you say he is, and unqualified then how clownish and unqualified is the woman who badly lost an election to him? like maybe you should have nominated someone who wasn't a completely unqualified diversity hire and a total joke? and what does this...
  11. Merrill

    Free Traders Case For Tariffs

    so how is it OK for foreign governments to impose high tariffs and duties on our products? you are arguing from a free-trade standpoint when free-trade doesn't even exist how is it OK for the EU to impose a 10%+ (VAT and duties as well) tariff on our cars, while we impose a 2.5% tariff on...
  12. Merrill

    Free Traders Case For Tariffs

    totally irrelevant was are the world's largest import consumer *because* we have low, or no, tariffs, on imported goods. We also have a large population and a high quality of life and because we have virtually no tariffs (up till now), manufacturing has moved overseas, leading to massive job...
  13. Merrill

    Free Traders Case For Tariffs

    this debate has been going on for decades: free trade vs. protectionism, etc. but I would like to know what the political left thinks happens to companies with unionized, high-cost workforces when trade barriers are dropped? hint: people get laid off and factories move. so we can either...
  14. Merrill

    Free Traders Case For Tariffs

    A modest trade deficit isn't a problem a massively growing one is having towns completely hollowed-out because all the manufacturing closed or moved overseas is a problem having everyone work in the service economy is not a good thing, for a lot of reasons
  15. Merrill

    Free Traders Case For Tariffs

    it's gaslighting because 1. The Chinese manufacturing workforce has grown over the past few decades, not shrunk. If manufacturing was so efficient now, as you claim, that we need a fraction of the workers, than this wouldn't be the case to which you will say "well they are building more...
  16. Merrill

    Free Traders Case For Tariffs

    so the link you provided doesn't say what you indicate it says: " However, in recent years, Vietnam has increased applied tariff rates on several products" meaning many products from the US are taxed well above 15% --no hard data is in that link to indicate which ones are subject to this, but...
  17. Merrill

    Free Traders Case For Tariffs

    We are running a 1.3 trillion dollar trade deficit pretty sure that is a "failure" on our side all the gaslighting about more efficient manufacturing, less people needed, whatever, is irrelevant. These are the numbers
  18. Merrill

    Free Traders Case For Tariffs

    well free trade might work just fine, but we haven't had that. Which is what he is saying. go look at the statistics involving the hollowing-out of our manufacturing sector since the 1950s https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-9/forty-years-of-falling-manufacturing-employment.htm and also see...
  19. Merrill

    Tit for Tat Tariffs - The US versus the World

    agreed so how many more times are you going to talk about it this morning?
  20. Merrill

    Tit for Tat Tariffs - The US versus the World

    yes, we all have seen that story like 6 times this morning it is silly for sure, but I am pretty sure there are more important things to talk about, unless you want to put up some cat videos as well
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