RealDave
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It starts with the rhetoric. Then it goes to the demands.
Then you pull out of trade agreements like TPP & soon NAFTA.
You then call our best trading partners, Canada & Mexico, names & insult their leaders.
Then you slap tariffs on products.
What will happen when other countries call the Trump tax cut on corporations a government subsidy & use it to slap tariffs on US goods.
These decisions Trump makes have consequences. Consequence he either ignores or is too stupid to know?
Slapping that tariff on solar panels might help the US panel manufacturers but it makes solar energy more expensive & the industry expects to lose tens of thousands of jobs. Of course, making solar more expensive helps the fossil fuel industry (Trump's buddies) while increasing our greenhouse gas emissions.
Who pays these tariffs, US consumers.
Then you pull out of trade agreements like TPP & soon NAFTA.
You then call our best trading partners, Canada & Mexico, names & insult their leaders.
Then you slap tariffs on products.
What will happen when other countries call the Trump tax cut on corporations a government subsidy & use it to slap tariffs on US goods.
These decisions Trump makes have consequences. Consequence he either ignores or is too stupid to know?
Slapping that tariff on solar panels might help the US panel manufacturers but it makes solar energy more expensive & the industry expects to lose tens of thousands of jobs. Of course, making solar more expensive helps the fossil fuel industry (Trump's buddies) while increasing our greenhouse gas emissions.
Who pays these tariffs, US consumers.