It's about installing regressive taxation to move the burden to consumers of cheap foreign goods to give cover for tax cuts for the wealthy. It'll balloon the debt, they'll say that we can't afford safety net programs, not cutting their bloated contracts. The haves are subsidized by the have-nots.
It sounds cynical, but I don't see why people don't see this. "It's really going to hurt his voters" is irrelevant. They'll spend massively to manipulate people each election cycle, and give each other huge contracts we pay for while we think that we just can't afford a government that helps us.
Exactly. People see the shock and awe and they forget the guiding principle of the conservatives over the last 45 years. "Help the rich become richer to gain wealth and hold onto power." has been their mantra for longer than I've been alive.
To our Canadian/Mexican friends, I hope one day you guys can forgive us. The majority of americans are just as sick of this betrayal as you are rn and there is no way Trumps government survives into 2026. Stay strong and save North America for us! 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇲
Trump is a Russian brain worm who got the American economy to shoot itself in the head after starving Russia out of enough oxygen to lose to Ukraine. If you can't put the puzzle piece in the space shaped exactly like the piece, I can't help you.
Also, it isn’t true that US manufactured products will be cheaper. They won’t be. US labor costs up & down the supply chain are much higher than the current foreign sources. Up go prices no matter how this plays out. US economy will be worse off, end result of the stupid trade war.
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