Are you intelligent enough to realize that recent tariffs are a huge tax increase on Americans that disproportionately impact working class?

Question

Or are you a Trump supporter?

Answer 1

Are you stupid enough to believe that its okay for the US to have an annual trade deficit with China of half a trillion dollars? Do you think it helps the working class if China has no regard for US intellectual rights, conducts widespread cyber economic espionage, sets barriers to US economic interests in China, and disproportionally enforces trade agreements? When China cheats on trade it doesn't help the working class. Selling cheap goods alone, does not justify China's trade policies.

Answer 2

Absolutely. I'm very analytical to these things. I have the ability to critically think, unlike trump supporters.

Answer 3

Tariffs are price increases on products sold in the US. For every middle class family that purchases items at Walmart or other discount stores it is likely those lower prices are a result of the products being manufactured overseas where costs are lower. A tariff raises those prices hurting the consumer, the retaliatory tariffs on US goods, especially agriculture hurts US farmers.

The policy is not a good one, it creates instability in the economy and if it continues will most likely lead to a recession in the final years of the Trump Presidency. The President is living in the past, he doesn't listen to actual economists and depends on his outdated, uninformed opinion about macro economics.

Being a businessman does not qualify you to understand macroeconomics. The two are not equivalent, anymore than the best physical therapist isn't qualified as a orthopedic surgeon. Related fields does not mean equal knowledge.

Answer 4

I'm intelligent enough to see you are politically illiterate.

Answer 5

Chinese theft of US intellectual property is also a huge theft of purchasing power from America's workers. So, if you dislike the tariffs, what other solution do you have in mind?

ps: pls review the theory of how the cost of a tariff is spread amongst the participants -- not all of it is eaten by the customers

Answer 6

Only a Trump sycophant doesn't realize that.

Answer 7

I'm not a Trump supporter.
And Trumps tariffs are just another way to tax Americans.
His supporters are too dumb to understand that.

Answer 8

You're watching too much MSNBC , conspiracy TV .

Threats of tariffs are a negotiating tool ,,,, which btw seem to be getting the job done .

Answer 9

Yes to the first question. No to the second. They are also a kick in the genitals to farmers. Nebraska alone has lost 1 billion dollars in agricultural revenue. Washington state lost 86 million in cherries alone.

Answer 10

Yes-No