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Who actually supports the Trump tariffs?
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 5:28 PM Author: startled twinkling hall doctorate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36177077) |
Date: June 3rd, 2018 5:29 PM Author: navy arrogant lay tank I support the fight
Like he said, when you’re losing $800bn a year you don’t suffer in a trade war. those who have the surplus do |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 5:39 PM Author: startled twinkling hall doctorate The tariffs will hurt American consumers and negate the positive impact of the tax cuts. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36177130) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 5:42 PM Author: navy arrogant lay tank lisped the dumb neckbeard economist as the economy started booming (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36177144) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 9:11 PM Author: bateful pea-brained university Oh no, I won't be able to afford as many foreign baubles! Give me a politician that will destroy my country so I can buy more instead! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36178328) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 10:33 PM Author: Cerise electric mad cow disease telephone This is well done. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36178723) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 5:44 PM Author: dashing obsidian immigrant what do you mean losing 800 billion a year (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36177148) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 5:48 PM Author: navy arrogant lay tank trump embellished to say we are losing 800 bn a year in the trade deficit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36177164) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 5:50 PM Author: dashing obsidian immigrant trade deficit is not losing money. money is being spent and you receive products in return. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36177170) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 5:50 PM Author: navy arrogant lay tank Lmao (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36177174) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 5:51 PM Author: dashing obsidian immigrant What am i missing then? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36177183) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 5:52 PM Author: navy arrogant lay tank I don’t have time to explain shit to you, cuck (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36177185) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 5:56 PM Author: dashing obsidian immigrant more likely that you can't, because only an idiot would have made that statement (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36177211) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 10:05 PM Author: stirring henna athletic conference puppy LMAO, nice way of saying that you have no idea what you're talking about. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36178600) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 8:09 PM Author: irradiated dull toilet seat A trade is performed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36177801) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 5:49 PM Author: Brilliant Circlehead https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_of_trade
I think it’s more like 600B, tbf. |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 5:50 PM Author: dashing obsidian immigrant 600b is just disappearing with nothing to show for it? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36177175) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 5:55 PM Author: Brilliant Circlehead Who knows? Macroeconomics is complete flame. Better off asking a gypsy palm reader. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36177199) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 7:57 PM Author: Titillating azure church (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36177726) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 8:10 PM Author: irradiated dull toilet seat 600bn stuffed in Chinese mattresses. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36177809) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 5:41 PM Author: beady-eyed startling boltzmann property I'm excited to see how it works out. You've probably been wrong about a lot lately, so that's promising. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36177137) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 5:46 PM Author: trip ocher step-uncle's house I do. These countries can go fuck themselves. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36177157) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 7:33 PM Author: hot shivering personal credit line (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36177615) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 8:12 PM Author: chocolate adventurous patrolman national (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36177819) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 9:11 PM Author: bateful pea-brained university (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36178331) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 5:48 PM Author: violet hairraiser mental disorder lol @ lolyers supposedly banking $400K/year whining about pat 5 cents more for a six-pack. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36177165) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 5:51 PM Author: navy arrogant lay tank “The conthumer thuffers”, said the leach who siphons money from the economy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36177184) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 5:56 PM Author: supple drunken ticket booth friendly grandma i support anything that weakens 'globalism,' that weakens foreign enemies (why have we made totalitarian-nationalistic China wealthy by prostrating ourselves economically at their feet for 25 years? what strategic interest does this serve?), and strengthens the self-sufficiency capacity of the Nation (rather than enriching the psychopathic transnational [[[corporations]]]). we need to rebalance the system. economic patriotism. |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 6:01 PM Author: tripping shitlib (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36177235) |
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Date: June 4th, 2018 2:30 AM Author: Stubborn splenetic lettuce (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36179492) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 6:00 PM Author: Cerise electric mad cow disease telephone EU assesses a 25% tariff on an automobile from the U.S.
The U.S. under Trump moves to impose a tariff (albeit much lower) on automobiles from Germany --- WHOA! That isn't FREE TRADE! Someone ALERT the media! |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 7:14 PM Author: Histrionic slate cuckold meetinghouse judging from this thread, guys who haven't studied much econ. free trade has moved more people out of poverty than literally any other human invention (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36177538) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 7:20 PM Author: supple drunken ticket booth friendly grandma i don't care about moving people in China out of poverty at the cost of immiserating American people. how is that hard to understand? |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 7:41 PM Author: Histrionic slate cuckold meetinghouse Tariffs increase prices for American consumers, which disproportionately "immiserate" America's poor. All so a few American union factory workers can be paid an above market wage. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36177646) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 7:47 PM Author: supple drunken ticket booth friendly grandma so having protectionism/industry in china is GOOD for chinese people, making them unimaginably prosperous. but having industry in America is bad for american people, and makes them poor and miserable. got it. tariffs, industrialization, etc must be another of those things, like border walls, that is ONLY bad for white countries, i guess. |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 7:57 PM Author: Histrionic slate cuckold meetinghouse ? No one said tariffs are good for chinese consumers--they aren't.
The reason China is "prospering" is that they were previously starvation level poor. Nowhere to go from there but up |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 8:46 PM Author: Cerise electric mad cow disease telephone This. InTheZone performing very badly. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36178100) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 7:43 PM Author: Sadistic shrine party of the first part (Full-blown retard) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36177651) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 7:57 PM Author: Histrionic slate cuckold meetinghouse feel free to show your work, my man (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36177729) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 8:12 PM Author: Sadistic shrine party of the first part Pretty sure you already did, my brother (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36177818) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 8:31 PM Author: Histrionic slate cuckold meetinghouse (coward who is both unwilling and unable to defend his wrong view) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36177963) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 10:07 PM Author: stirring henna athletic conference puppy i think you're out of your depth here chief (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36178614) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 8:19 PM Author: Aggressive glassy orchestra pit Agree 100% but we’re being CUCKED. We offer virtually no tariffs while country X imposes a 20% tariffs on our goods. All trump is doing is tit for tat to try to get them to drop their tariffs. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36177864) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 8:20 PM Author: hot shivering personal credit line CR re: getting CUCKED (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36177869) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 8:57 PM Author: Passionate dingle berry home And the mercantilist trade policy that China is imposing on us has moved just as many into poverty
Indian farmers were probably supportive of selling more cotton or whatever to Britain while Britain fucked India back by dumping industrial production back in India |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 9:16 PM Author: Cerise electric mad cow disease telephone USA = selling agricultural goods and oil to China while China sells us finished industrial goods. Which sounds like the advanced economy with a long-term sustainable future? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36178357) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 9:53 PM Author: Histrionic slate cuckold meetinghouse The finished goods that China is selling us depend on very cheap labor, eg factory sweatshop jobs that Americans don't want like putting together iphones. Ljl at suggesting chinese economy is more advanced (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36178536) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 9:57 PM Author: Cerise electric mad cow disease telephone So you think USA is dominating high-end manufacturing? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36178548) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 10:00 PM Author: Histrionic slate cuckold meetinghouse No, just high-end labor generally. A lot of manufacturing isn't desirable to have in the USA due to environmental issues. And even beyond that, labor costs are a high percentage of total manufacturing cost right now--so usually it makes more sense to do it someplace where the minimum wage is 0 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36178570) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 10:12 PM Author: Cerise electric mad cow disease telephone Come back in a few years when you've read more. Tariffs are not good per se, that's for sure. But the current system is untenable (and also unfair to USA). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36178638) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 11:08 PM Author: Histrionic slate cuckold meetinghouse LOL! link? Pretty easy to be patronizing when you're a pumo and provide no evidence (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36178905) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 11:01 PM Author: aqua cowardly crotch locale Dude, yes. The US manufacturing base is FAR more advanced than that of China and dominates the highest end of the market. I support these tariffs because FUCK CHINA, but that doesn’t mean that the US isn’t the world’s largest and most advanced manufacturer. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36178867) |
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Date: June 4th, 2018 9:19 AM Author: Aggressive glassy orchestra pit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36180001) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 9:56 PM Author: Rough-skinned Buff Roast Beef Jew so you're saying that China engages in perfectly free trade with us? is that the argument? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36178541) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 10:01 PM Author: Histrionic slate cuckold meetinghouse No. The argument is that even if China is putting tariffs on our goods, it is good for US consumers to place zero tariffs on Chinese goods (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36178576) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 10:13 PM Author: Cerise electric mad cow disease telephone And what about US workers? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36178643) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 10:14 PM Author: Cerise electric mad cow disease telephone Or do you think US consumers are so starved for goods that American policies should promote the acquisition of more goods?
Me? I think consumers in America are doing fine, but American manufacturing could use a boost. |
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Date: June 4th, 2018 9:49 AM Author: Histrionic slate cuckold meetinghouse 1, workers are generally also consumers. 2, it's a small number of factory jobs that get saved by tariffs. 3, the domestic factory jobs wouldn't exist but for distorting the underlying economics; these workers should seek work in different fields & the world gets more efficient. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36180134) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 10:20 PM Author: Rough-skinned Buff Roast Beef Jew i know the theoretical arugment that the nation as a whole is better off. we heard that over and over during the NAFTA debates. we also heard the Bush's and Clinton's and Gore's promise that those who were left less well off would be protected because we'd make sure the increased profits would go to them.
but that was a fucking lie and we are incapable of doing that. |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 10:35 PM Author: Cerise electric mad cow disease telephone Also a good point. Perot was closest to the truth, as the debate famously showed. "Giant sucking sound" of manufacturing job loss. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36178731) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 11:03 PM Author: Histrionic slate cuckold meetinghouse Why should Americans who aren't in manufacturing have to subsidize the manufacturing sector? This hurts the many to profit the few with sweet union factory jobs (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36178875) |
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Date: June 4th, 2018 3:46 AM Author: aqua cowardly crotch locale Why should consumers have to subsidize an American middle class at all? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36179633) |
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Date: June 4th, 2018 9:10 AM Author: Opaque Hospital Cuckoldry Why should Americans who aren’t in manufacturing have to support Chinese factory owners? Because George Bush advocated it? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36179977) |
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Date: June 4th, 2018 9:42 AM Author: Histrionic slate cuckold meetinghouse ? American consumers under free trade can "support" American or Chinese or other factory owners as they wish (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36180102) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 7:45 PM Author: hot shivering personal credit line i feel really bad that mr. wonderful won't be able to squeeze even more $$$ out of his american businesses by farming out the parts and labor overseas.
fuck GC. |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 7:57 PM Author: Cruel-hearted Police Squad Station ITT: a neoliberal shill rages impotently (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36177728) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 8:56 PM Author: Passionate dingle berry home I do. Hollowing out this country's industrial base has been by far the stupidest thing to have ever been done (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36178197) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 8:57 PM Author: racy gaped toaster cr fuck the hateful dweebs who almost got away with it |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 9:12 PM Author: bateful pea-brained university (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36178333) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 10:13 PM Author: marvelous insane depressive Targeting metals won't do jack to reindustrilaize the US. Smelting requires basically no human labor anymore. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36178644) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 10:18 PM Author: Cerise electric mad cow disease telephone what would you suggest?
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 10:20 PM Author: marvelous insane depressive Build private public partnerships of the sort that actually build factories in a world where a proper industrial supply chain is a $10 billion commitment and can't be done by the private sector properly. China does what it does in 2018 by throwing money at cos and not merely offering slave labor. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36178677) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 10:28 PM Author: Cerise electric mad cow disease telephone Right. One would think all of the complaints about IP theft would result in, e.g., more semiconductor fabs built in the USA.
States are doing some of this but the feds seem to be missing a big chance. See also infrastructure. |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 10:31 PM Author: marvelous insane depressive Chinese fabs are generations behind US fabs. China is stuck at 28nm. The US is at 10nm. The best fabs are American, Taiwanese and S.Korean. China ain't a top 3. And Russia is even worse. They are stuck at 45nm and limited volume at 45nm at that. Mass production is at 65nm. China ain't no threat. S. Korea however.... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36178716) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 10:41 PM Author: Cerise electric mad cow disease telephone (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36178759) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 10:49 PM Author: impertinent mischievous double fault locus USA USA (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36178808) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 10:54 PM Author: Cerise electric mad cow disease telephone America does have troops in S. Korea... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36178844) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 10:17 PM Author: Cerise electric mad cow disease telephone CR. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36178663) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 9:02 PM Author: Snowy Public Bath Back that man to the HILT.
Tariffs help us MAGA^180 |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 9:15 PM Author: Cerise electric mad cow disease telephone Most Americans. Certainly most Americans who work for a living (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36178350) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 10:08 PM Author: Turquoise Brunch support them on china and mexico.
tariffs on the EU make no sense. |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 10:09 PM Author: carmine yarmulke elastic band Who doesn't, bro? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36178629) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 10:12 PM Author: marvelous insane depressive It's going to create massive inflation. As a bro with a million in mortgage debt I am 100% for lots of inflation. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36178637) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 10:19 PM Author: Cerise electric mad cow disease telephone The USA needs inflation. Get rid of all that debt. The dollar will ultimately revalue against a basket of currencies/commodities. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36178671) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 10:21 PM Author: marvelous insane depressive I'm rich. Inflation won't really destroy my quality of life. It will obliterate poor people. It only benefits a small cohort of over leveraged people like me. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36178681) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 10:23 PM Author: Cerise electric mad cow disease telephone (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36178686) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 10:24 PM Author: Cerise electric mad cow disease telephone (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36178689) |
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Date: June 4th, 2018 9:01 AM Author: white aphrodisiac goal in life (bro over leveraged at $1M calling himself rich) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36179954) |
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Date: June 4th, 2018 9:20 AM Author: Aggressive glassy orchestra pit Tariffs lead to inflation... that’s a new one. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36180004) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 10:18 PM Author: Alcoholic motley base preventive strike every american does (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36178667) |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 11:08 PM Author: Opaque Hospital Cuckoldry Why would anyone NOT support them, other than being part of the "resistance"? What interest does being pro free trade serve at this point other than ramping consumerism. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36178900) |