cubsfan

Dude - you live in your academic textbook, where you think you get to adjudicate who can levy tariffs on who. You have no idea how silly you sound.

I am reading your comments, as well as your frequent insults. Your logic is as follows - Country A can implement tariffs, but Country B can not implement tariffs. All because you say so. That is the gist of it, and it's ridiculous.

Yeah Africa will be a great substitute for the US market. Good luck with that. You just love those high tariffs, so long as it's not the US imposing them. What a hypocrite.

China is not going to have access to the wealthiest country in the world with our high tariffs. Rebuilding manufacturing will take time and is well worth it - especially against countries that had a field day destroying our manufacturing base. You still have not told me why China does not drop their 60% tariffs against the USA.

OF course, you make no sense at all. IF there are no export markets available for US companies, due to high tariffs, of course they will be uncompetitive.

It's not complex at all. 60% tariffs are terrifically unfair trade. And you can't defend it with any sort of logic. You just make it up as you go along. This country can make great products - but we can't sell them overseas with 60% tariffs.

So, in other words, China will keep 60% tariffs forever, but we can't. That's what I thought. Very poor answer.

Not at all. It's a reset for the USA, plain and simple. America first. If the rest of the world wants to decend into socialism, so be it. We tried it with Biden - it's not the American way.

You have not told me why China persists in having such high tariffs in place for decades. Why don't they get rid of them, if they are so concerned about "free trade"?

That's pretty idiotic really. If Trump wanted to be richer, he would have never run for a second term. He had it made. Running for a second term resulting in the opposition trying to bankrupt him by destroying his businesses, then try to kill him, then put him in jail for 300 years. Yeah, I'm sure he did this for the money.

Really, China? China has 60% tariffs on US goods, but the US is the bully. Gotcha If tariffs are so horrible, how did China grow at 10% per annum for decades? Why don't they ditch them?

Bingo.

The ripoff happened long ago when all the jobs were outsourced and everyone told them how great this would be for them. Turns out - it destroyed communities and there was no regard for the displaced workers - none. But a whole lot of other people got rich. Now the government workers in DC are getting a taste of it - and turns out, they don't like it either.

Sure John - @flesh orginally posted this. I thought it was very well done.

If you watched the All-In interview with Howard Lutnick 2 weeks ago, you would be very wrong.

100% , if you are a UAW member, you love this guy. Many, many working class people will as well.

Fantastic observation. As Munger would say "invert". If tariffs are so great for their own country, why not ours?

Biden crushed the middle class with terrible inflation and unaffordable housing for the young. The Biden administration did not give a hoot about the working class or middle class. Americans aren't stupid and figured it out. The cultural insanity was the last straw - like I say, family and traditional cultural values are NOT about money. Unfortunately, an adminstration that did so much damage to the country gets replaced by the clean up crew. Make no mistake about it - fixing this country is going to be very, very hard. I make no predictions about the midterms - Trump is dealing with a huge mess and I can't imagine what approach Kamala would have pursued - likely, nothing. But already, closing the border, reducing crime, and reverting to our traditional values is a beautiful thing. The rest is going to be a rough ride.

Turns out things like culture, parent's rights, trans lunacy and failing schools mean a lot to voters. Try and measure it in dollars - - - it doesn't work. I don't even need to go with the economy... We all saw the Democratic party go plum crazy for 8 years. It's on the verge of collapse. So you got Trump. Suck it up.

The list is long, and has been covered quite well previously. Keep up the resistance, it's entertaining.

You need to worry about the opposition party's approval rating, which is in the toilet. It's the first inning of nine. Check back for the final score before you declare victory. So far, the score in the bottom of the first is 10-0

I know it's tough when you just have to stand by and watch all this unfold. The Democrats brought it upon themselves, and they get to try and fix it in a couple of years. What a bunch of losers. Until then, better just suck it up.

And just think - you can't do anything about it except bitch and moan. It's so much fun watching the opposition party that has absolutely no idea what to do, while they get steamrolled.

Keep your fingers crossed, the Democrats have no political power anymore. They've tried absolutely everything. It's tough when you lose the Presidency, House, Senate and the country all in one election. Amazing how they fucked the whole thing up. All they can do is bitch, moan and flail away. That is some 4D Chess.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/02/trump-tariffs-live-updates.html 25% tariffs for Mexico & Canada - looks like The Trump administration announced Wednesday that Canada and Mexico will be exempt from the baseline 10% tariff rate, as well as reciprocal levies for specific countries for now. The 10% tariff would only kick in when the original 25% duties Trump slapped on Canadian and Mexican imports are terminated or suspended. The 25% tariff was based on allegations that the neighboring countries were failing to stem the flow of drugs and crime into the U.S.