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Who actually supports the Trump tariffs?
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 5:28 PM Author: Big aqua filthpig site (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3992923&forum_id=2#36177077) |
Date: June 3rd, 2018 5:29 PM Author: adventurous bat-shit-crazy resort 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: Big aqua filthpig site 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: adventurous bat-shit-crazy resort 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: Anal spectacular roast beef 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: Lavender Mind-boggling Meetinghouse Shitlib 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: lascivious garrison 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: adventurous bat-shit-crazy resort 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: lascivious garrison 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: adventurous bat-shit-crazy resort 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: lascivious garrison 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: adventurous bat-shit-crazy resort 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: lascivious garrison 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: Aphrodisiac Fiercely-loyal Goal In Life Volcanic Crater 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: saffron aromatic striped hyena ape 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: stimulating french chef 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: lascivious garrison 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: stimulating french chef 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: yellow motley menage potus (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: saffron aromatic striped hyena ape 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: Thriller Rigor Gaming Laptop 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: soggy concupiscible party of the first part 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: wonderful field nibblets (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: Olive Idiotic Antidepressant Drug Dragon (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: Anal spectacular roast beef (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: nofapping trip hell ratface 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: adventurous bat-shit-crazy resort “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: electric internet-worthy fortuitous meteor son of senegal 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: white exhilarant corner (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: infuriating splenetic casino cuckoldry (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: Lavender Mind-boggling Meetinghouse Shitlib 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: puce coffee pot juggernaut 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: electric internet-worthy fortuitous meteor son of senegal 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: puce coffee pot juggernaut 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: electric internet-worthy fortuitous meteor son of senegal 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: puce coffee pot juggernaut ? 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: Lavender Mind-boggling Meetinghouse Shitlib 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: Orchid cerebral preventive strike police squad (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: puce coffee pot juggernaut 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: Orchid cerebral preventive strike police squad 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: puce coffee pot juggernaut (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: Aphrodisiac Fiercely-loyal Goal In Life Volcanic Crater 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: Tripping light kitty cat 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: wonderful field nibblets 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: Fragrant Degenerate Death Wish 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: Lavender Mind-boggling Meetinghouse Shitlib 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: puce coffee pot juggernaut 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: Lavender Mind-boggling Meetinghouse Shitlib 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: puce coffee pot juggernaut 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: Lavender Mind-boggling Meetinghouse Shitlib 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: puce coffee pot juggernaut 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: Odious Snowy Athletic Conference House 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: Tripping light kitty cat (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: Glittery mediation abode 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: puce coffee pot juggernaut 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: Lavender Mind-boggling Meetinghouse Shitlib 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: Lavender Mind-boggling Meetinghouse Shitlib 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: puce coffee pot juggernaut 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: Glittery mediation abode 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: Lavender Mind-boggling Meetinghouse Shitlib 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: puce coffee pot juggernaut 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: Odious Snowy Athletic Conference House 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: Balding Famous Landscape Painting 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: puce coffee pot juggernaut ? 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: wonderful field nibblets 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: 180 self-absorbed bawdyhouse 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: Fragrant Degenerate Death Wish 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: ultramarine sneaky criminal windowlicker cr fuck the hateful dweebs who almost got away with it |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 9:12 PM Author: Anal spectacular roast beef (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: bespoke rose office pistol 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: Lavender Mind-boggling Meetinghouse Shitlib what would you suggest?
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 10:20 PM Author: bespoke rose office pistol 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: Lavender Mind-boggling Meetinghouse Shitlib 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: bespoke rose office pistol 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: Lavender Mind-boggling Meetinghouse Shitlib (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: aquamarine internal respiration 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: Lavender Mind-boggling Meetinghouse Shitlib 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: Lavender Mind-boggling Meetinghouse Shitlib 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: Galvanic Frozen Hunting Ground Back that man to the HILT.
Tariffs help us MAGA^180 |
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Date: June 3rd, 2018 9:15 PM Author: Lavender Mind-boggling Meetinghouse Shitlib 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: Appetizing narrow-minded hominid elastic band 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: exciting step-uncle's house 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: bespoke rose office pistol 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: Lavender Mind-boggling Meetinghouse Shitlib 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: bespoke rose office pistol 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: Lavender Mind-boggling Meetinghouse Shitlib (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: Lavender Mind-boggling Meetinghouse Shitlib (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: Black crusty forum (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: Tripping light kitty cat 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: razzmatazz love of her life 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: Balding Famous Landscape Painting 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) |