The findings suggest U.S. consumers will continue to struggle with high prices — something Trump had promised to address in the run-up to his re-election.
These are people who heard “trade deficit” and thought “deficit? That’s a bad word!”
We were getting a ton of stuff from other countries for cheap, meanwhile those countries either couldn’t afford our stuff or bought it at an absurd premium.
That is not supporting the other countries, it’s exploiting them.
The funny thing is, I’m like… Yeah, we should probably stop exploiting them. And in that sense, the tariffs are a good thing. Buuut the price of doing that is being paid disproportionately by working class people.
If it was more equitably implemented, I wouldn’t necessarily have a problem with a more tariff-based USA.
These are people who heard “trade deficit” and thought “deficit? That’s a bad word!”
We were getting a ton of stuff from other countries for cheap, meanwhile those countries either couldn’t afford our stuff or bought it at an absurd premium.
That is not supporting the other countries, it’s exploiting them.
The funny thing is, I’m like… Yeah, we should probably stop exploiting them. And in that sense, the tariffs are a good thing. Buuut the price of doing that is being paid disproportionately by working class people.
If it was more equitably implemented, I wouldn’t necessarily have a problem with a more tariff-based USA.