Isn't his position that trade with a country is good, as long as we sell more to than we buy from that country?
I think he is just using trade deficits as an excuse to impose tariffs, with the main goal being to use those tariff revenues (paid by importers) to reduce income taxes on the wealthy.
If there's one thing I've learned from traveling the world and going to museums the past five years, it's that everything in the world -- ranging from exploration to wars -- is predicated on trade.
He's doing this as a power play. He wants US corporations and the world to bow down to him. He could care less about anything else. He definitely doesn't care about trade.
He has an extremely dumb and simplistic view of the world and he’s forcing us all to live in it. Someone called it a beggar’s economy. That’s what he wants. He wants us to beg him.
No , he’s doing it to crash the economy, so people will riot, so they can impose martial law, end the constitution and start Peter Thiel’s network states.
Yeah basically if anyone who doesn’t give it to him is [selling stuff] then they should be punished. Just like the Christian god. Gotta do [shopping] while praising his name or you’re a sinner deserving [el Salvador torture]
I think the game is Lemmings from the early 90s where the creatures follow eachother off a cliff, except with a broken keyboard, so there is no saving them
He doesn’t Think. Even if he wants to bring manufacturing back to the US he needs to factor in materials, buildings, systems, training, all things that require time. Years. He could have approached it in a different manner. He wants to crash there economy- it’s intentional and for profit.
Every time Trump buys a bucket from KFC and eats it in the shower, he comes out feeling cheated because KFC didn't buy anything from him. That is his understanding of how trade should work.
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I think he is just using trade deficits as an excuse to impose tariffs, with the main goal being to use those tariff revenues (paid by importers) to reduce income taxes on the wealthy.
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