You seem to be the moron if you are supporting trump and his idiotic policies. Some things could be improved, but we are doing quite well all things considered. Tariffs will just put us in recession. Tax breaks will just add to the debt. A wall will be a waste of time. What is it he wants to do that you like so much?
So you duck responding on your specific anti-factual nonsense and pivot to throwing generic bullshit.
You are stupid.
And tariffs will not put us into a recession retard.
You obviously do not understand economics.
Many blame the great depression on tariffs.
Those Reagan tariffs Trump loves to talk about
But trade experts argue the tariffs also cost U.S. jobs, increased prices and forced manufacturers to pay more.
"The answer is not to erect higher barriers -- in the long run, it's not going to work, it makes us worse off," says Clifford Winston, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Trump's tariffs are "certainly not the answer to any employment losses."
Everything Trump Says About Trade With China Is Wrong
First, the entire premise of Trump’s plan to retaliate against China is erroneous. Trump cites the U.S.-China trade deficit as proof that the dominant Chinese, via pernicious currency manipulation, are taking weak America’s manufacturing jobs, thereby justifying his tariff plans.
However, as I
explained in The Federalist last fall, the U.S. manufacturing sector has been (until the last month or so) setting production (and export!) records, and almost 90 percent of the decline in U.S. manufacturing jobs between 2000 and 2010 was caused by productivity gains (robots and computers), rather than import competition.
In fact, a
recent Ball State study found that, “Had we kept 2000-levels of productivity and applied them to 2010-levels of production, we would have required 20.9 million manufacturing workers. Instead, we employed only 12.1 million.” So unless Trump wants to destroy all the robots, those jobs just aren’t coming back, tariff or not.
Furthermore, the idea that the U.S.-China trade balance proves that we’re “losing” at trade is the height of economic ignorance. For one thing, there’s actually a strong correlation between U.S. economic growth and an
expanding U.S. trade deficit. As Cato’s