Trump just increased the cost of every imported car by 25%

[eagle1462010]

Indeed, targetted reciprocal tariffs are an acceptable historical standard.

So why is Europe pissed? We just doing what they do to us.

 

[Zincwarrior]

So why is Europe pissed? We just doing what they do to us.

And Mexico/Canada where "US" Companies have massive plants and run product back and forth between plants in the US and there?

 

[eagle1462010]

And Mexico/Canada where "US" Companies have massive plants and run product back and forth between plants in the US and there?

And? Companies trying to increase profits. Using slave labor wages in Mexico

 

[Zincwarrior]

And? Companies trying to increase profits. Using slave labor wages in Mexico

Thats fair.

 

[westwall]

Those vehicles will be going up too.

No they won't.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

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"ba it would be quite a target for thieves.

Thieves Get the Death Penalty; It's Even in the Bible

You mean "bait," because Trump is going to let us shoot looters dead. And none of this "Go away! I've got a gun"sissiness. That turns predators loose on your neighbors.

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[citygator]

I'm sure it is. Didn't Trump say it was a temporary hardship that would cause change from our trading partners?
The problem is you dumbfcks constantly are putting Democrats back in power so they can destroy any benefit we get from American-First policies.
The whole time I was in federal service, Democrats would tear everything down, only to have the next Republican have to spend billions fixing the shit that Democrats destroyed. The last American loving Democrat president we had was Jimmy Carter. And even he was a hot mess.

Some things are made cheaper overseas and that leads to cheaper prices. We are at full employment. All he is doing is taxing the middle and lower class with Tariff Taxes embedded in the products. What good will come of that?

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Dems dont run companies. Pubs do. Especially auto companies.

Ivies Conniving

True, but why didn't the Democrats outlaw outsourcing and confiscate its profits from the economic traitors, especially since the looters were mostly Republican?

The only thing the Con-stitution established was a con game.

 

[Zincwarrior]

No they won't.

You have a basic misunderstanding of mathematics and supply/demand dynamics. But hey, you be you, Comrade.

 

[mudwhistle]

Some things are made cheaper overseas and that leads to cheaper prices. We are at full employment. All he is doing is taxing the middle and lower class with Tariff Taxes embedded in the products. What good will come of that?

The reason they're made cheaper overseas is because they use sweatshops.
Democrats caused inflation and then drove up minimum-wage.
They attacked small businesses and created regulations designed to increase the costs of doing business in America.
They say they want the entire USA to become Detroit.

 

[citygator]

Ivies Conniving

True, but why didn't the Democrats outlaw outsourcing and confiscate its profits from the economic traitors, especially since the looters were mostly Republican?

The only thing the Con-stitution established was a con game.

Why? We are in a dynamic market. All the profit is kept by corporations. Fix that. Why simply levy a tax on consumers, which is what a Tariff is?

 

[citygator]

The reason they're made cheaper overseas is because they use sweatshops.
Democrats caused inflation and then drove up minimum-wage.
They attacked small businesses and created regulations designed to increase the costs of doing business in America.
They say they want the entire USA to become Detroit.

Nope. Nothing we buy is made in an illegal sweatshop. We have inspectors who do that for a living.

You are so confusing. You want government in or out of business? Minimum wage you want out but for tariffs you want them in? Tariffs do not drive product manufacturing back to the US, they only drive higher prices.

 

[mudwhistle]

Nope. Nothing we buy is made in an illegal sweatshop. We have inspectors who do that for a living.

You are so confusing. You want government in or out of business? Minimum wage you want out but for tariffs you want them in? Tariffs do not drive product manufacturing back to the US, they only drive higher prices.

The reason Trump is using tariffs is to cause foreign countries, that have been giving us the tariff shaft, to lower their tariffs.
He figures when you have a massive trade imbalance the one with the deficit usually does better than the one with the surplus.
Bunch of countries prevent competition from the US by instituting tariffs to freeze American manufacturers out of their market.
Trump is just doing the same thing they've been doing to us.
Since we're the biggest economy in the world, and we aren't buying as much of their products anymore, they end up suffering more than us.
Oh, BTW, the only thing government does to business is get in their way.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Yea for higher prices, thank you President Trump!

Do think there is some way he can push gas prices higher? Promises made, promises kept.

This Big Piggy Goes to Market

The foreign companies can take the tariffs out of their obscene profit margins and charge us the same price. All corporations can do that, but they use their expensively bribed academic oinkonomists to make us believe the make-believe that their profit margin is magically set in stone. The GreedHeads even preach that they'd go bankrupt if they had to give this much of it up. They whine while drinking $100 bottles of wine.

 

[debbiedowner]

This tariff is on cars, not parts.

Wrong

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Adjusts Imports of Automobiles and Automobile Parts into the United States

COUNTERING TRADE PRACTICES THAT THREATEN TO IMPAIR U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a proclamation invoking Section

www.whitehouse.gov

• The 25% tariff will be applied to imported passenger vehicles (sedans, SUVs, crossovers, minivans, cargo vans) and light trucks, as well as key automobile parts (engines, transmissions, powertrain parts, and electrical components), with processes to expand tariffs on additional parts if necessary.

Less affect on Tesla. He gets some parts overseas.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Thieves Get the Death Penalty; It's Even in the Bible

You mean "bait," because Trump is going to let us shoot looters dead. And none of this "Go away! I've got a gun"sissiness. That turns predators loose on your neighbors.

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Sorry, don't know where you got that.

But, yeah, we don't turn predators loose in my neighborhood. We all know farmers with acreage and large digging machines.


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[The Sage of Main Street]

Only one of us is in big business. The other posts from his basement. I can assure you that companies were not being restricted from success by the government until recently. We sit around talking about other competitors, not the government. Company profits are historic highs right now. So was the stock market until Trump crashed it with Tariffs. You know what we are talking about right now? TARIFFS. How do we pass on the price increases to our customers. That's what we are talking about in big business.

May Bankrupt Anonymously

Your real enemy is within. Dilbert management. Management by imagination; conceited yes-men pontificating. Know-it-all snobs who think that finding out what is going on in the ground level is beneath their dignity. You lie to yourselves about your right to your status.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Same folks who were DYING, literally DYING over 50 cents in gas prices are shrugging their shoulders on $15k car price increases. LOL. If they were any more stupid they would be texting war plans in an open platform to journalists accidently.

These arent the sort of people who buy new cars.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Look at the Tariffs these other countries put on our vehicles. Zero in on India.

Low-IQ Businessmen Can't Make a Profit Except by Gouging on Wages

Start emphasizing cheap foreign labor justifying a tariff, even if the sweatshop country has no tariffs on us. Competing on price instead of quality will sink all the First World economies.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

And? Companies trying to increase profits. Using slave labor wages in Mexico

Follow the Money or You'll Be Led by the Nose

The same traitors are exclusively behind this cheap-labor White Replacement invasion. Don't believe the plutes' bootlickers at all when they claim it's about Democrats wanting future voters by luring them with welfare.

It's a scab policy, nothing more. It proves that the Democrats are whores of Republican scrooges, their prep school classmates.