Michigan members of Congress react to Trump's threat of tariffs
Michigan members of Congress react to Trump's threat of tariffs
The president-elect says he would impose tariffs on all imports from Canada and Mexico, which could hurt the auto industry.
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“Tariffs are taxes," said Kildee [(D)]. "President-elect Trump’s proposal will drive higher prices for consumers and contribute to higher inflation."
Wish they would have driven this message harder nationwide.
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Yeah but with more than half of Americans with reading comprehension skills of a sixth grader, I don't think Democrats way of communicating would have helped unfortunately.
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Yeah, people were shouting this from the roof tops. Many people were having this conversation with any conservative leaning person. And the response was a resounding "Nuh, uh. Eggs are expensive now, things were cheaper with orange man"
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I'm going to cut right to the chase in everyday conversations and call them "the trump tax".
Not that it will do much good, but the more people that know about this, the better. Better to frame it properly and let the opposition and the low-info try to roll it back.
For the magabrained that start up with the arguments, I'll innocently ask them if this isn't what they voted for?
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Yeah but with more than half of Americans with reading comprehension skills of a sixth grader
I admire your optimism and generosity.
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I think a lot of "well actually" shit would have started up from not only the extremist right wing, but the "liberal media" as well, telling everyone that tariffs are not really taxes and so on. Just enough cover for the nitwits to still vote for their racism anyway, er, I mean, because of the price of eggs, you guyz!
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Shame that Michigan voted for this.
I do wonder what Michigan Republicans have to say, something I wish the crap press would actually push for instead of just quoting Democrats/progressives.
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I live in MI and work for a company that imports Japanese parts for robots in manufacturing (mostly auto). My boss is a vehement Trumper who says he only cares about politics because of the economy and manufacturing. I asked him how tariffs would help a company like ours who imports products. He said that it will help because we will sell more parts, because manufacturing will increase so much.
We also sell these same parts in Mexico and Canada, so we sell them either way. I don't get the logic, I guess.
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manufacturing will increase
That's the idea, but it won't actually happen.
Say you make widgets and a tariff makes domestic widget production attractive. Spin up a new factory!
But you won't because you realize the tariffs are going to be an economic clusterfuck and you don't want to be left holding the bag on a brand new factory when they're repealed.
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So cars will be significantly more expensive no matter where they're made?
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I'm getting ready for the inter-generational warfare to rev up even higher, blaming the cost of things for Gen Foo on Gen Bar (as if only one generation has to pay for things, but this is why I find it suuuuch a stupid distraction - turns out the poor among the boomers or the Greatest Generation get hurt by this stuff, too.) , when the blame should lie with Republicans and their bullshit notions about economics.
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There's a huge amount of boomer hatred out there which is very misplaced. Nearly all the people who are leading MAGA are GenX at most and a lot of millennials. All the Proud Boys and such have to be young enough to believe they can physically fight. It is 100% stupid Republican ideas that are going to screw this country up.
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Well, the Republicans and conservatives wanted to "disrupt" the bad ol' Big Government by voting for a complete dumbass Archie Bunker like donvict.
They confuse someone stating something over and over again and very loudly for "leadership". Classic human failing.