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

[Tommy Tainant]

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.

Foreign buyers are stuck with paying for americas overpriced healthcare. Why should they ?

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

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.

^^^"Don't Let the Democrats' Masters Become Your Masters; Let the Republicans' Masters Become Your Masters"

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

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?

The Entire Right and the Entire Left Are Mortal Enemies of White Males Born in the Working-Class

 

[citygator]

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.

So now you are pivoting from "Tariffs are good for business" to "its a weapon to battle trade imbalance". Do you just make up shit as you go?

Answer me this...

• Where did we get the current trade deal with Mexico and Canada from? (Answer TRUMP)
• How will a country of 30 million people in Canada buy as much as 350M people in America? (Answer IT CANT)
• Who pays and who gets hurt? (Answer is Americans for both)

 

[BackAgain]

25%. Thanks Trump! $30k car, thats a $7,500 tax.

Buy American then.

Are you also vehemently opposed to the creation of thousands of new jobs for American auto-plant workers?

 

[Tommy Tainant]

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.

Our TV news is reporting that US cars use 60% imported parts. Who is going to win in this ?

 

[mudwhistle]

So now you are pivoting from "Tariffs are good for business" to "its a weapon to battle trade imbalance". Do you just make up shit as you go?

Answer me this...

• Where did we get the current trade deal with Mexico and Canada from? (Answer TRUMP)
• How will a country of 30 million people in Canada buy as much as 350M people in America? (Answer IT CANT)
• Who pays and who gets hurt? (Answer is Americans for both)

I told you what Trump was using tariffs for.

You forgot that I mentioned that because America is the #1 economy in the world we have an advantage in a tariff war if we're running a trade-deficit.
And the current trade deal with Mexico and Canada I guess you forgot that Biden has been POTUS for the last 4 years, not Trump.
Canada has already been charging us 250% tariffs on our dairy products.
Trump wants them to get rid of tariffs altogether.

 

[mudwhistle]

These arent the sort of people who buy new cars.

I was gonna buy a new car a couple of years ago, but the car lot was almost empty of the model I like.
Not to mention the massive price increases that COVID ushered in.

 

[mudwhistle]

Our TV news is reporting that US cars use 60% imported parts. Who is going to win in this ?

Whoever moves parts production to the USA.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Whoever moves parts production to the USA.

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Boom!

We have machinists here.


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[mudwhistle]

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Boom!

We have machinists here.


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I know Democrats hate creating jobs unless they can fill those positions with DEI hires and foreigners, but Trump is trying to create jobs here in the US.
The economy is in shock right now because Trump is trying to change the economy back to private ownership instead of dependent on government.
The Inflation Reduction Act did the exact opposite of that. It increased inflation.

 

[mudwhistle]

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

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It's so discouraging to look at LA on Google Maps and see all that squalor.

But it's about as disheartening to see the same in Seattle.

The two locations where they filmed this, 3rd & Pike and 12th & Jackson, are places where I've caught buses a thousand times, up until about 2005, and never felt unsafe, but anyone who who'd be seen in either place now is in danger.






Democrats.


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[mudwhistle]

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It's so discouraging to look at LA on Google Maps and see all that squalor.

But it's about as disheartening to see the same in Seattle.

The two locations where they filmed this, 3rd & Pike and 12th & Jackson, are places where I've caught buses a thousand times, up until about 2005, and never felt unsafe, but anyone who who'd be seen in either place now is in danger.






Democrats.


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Seattle is the only place I saw people having sex in the streets,

 

[BackAgain]

In a Victory for Autoworkers, Auto Tariffs Mark the Beginning of the End of NAFTA and the “Free Trade” Disaster - UAW | United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America

Days after Volkswagen, the #2 automaker in the world, announced making $20.6 billion in profit in 2024, a new UAW survey of VW workers in Chattanooga reveals the devastating financial toll of VW’s substandard U.S. health care offerings.

uaw.org

That silly union imagining that this move by our President is in the interests of the autoworkers.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Seattle is the only place I saw people having sex in the streets,

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It happens.


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[eagle1462010]

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

Where do they build now clown? Quatas are tariffs brought their plants here already. Hell Reagan got us a bunch of auto plants here.

 

[eagle1462010]

Foreign buyers are stuck with paying for americas overpriced healthcare. Why should they ?

As yall pay over half your earning in taxes.

LMAO

Afforable my ass. You just pretend its cheap.

 

[initforme]

It's an experiment pure and simple. If it works great, if not, voters will decide. I do like the idea of workers making cars for a starting wage of $40 per hour.

 

[mudwhistle]