This Is How You Lose the Tariff War

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Originally Posted by Solkern

The Mexican drug industry only exists because Americans have a huge demand for cheap drugs due to our insane lack of a work-life balance, poverty, and an inability to afford medical care that's not just drugs. Americans drive over the border, buy cheap mass-produced opioids from the cartels, drive it back over in the trunk of their 2020 Honda Civics, and sell it to other Americans for a profit. immigrants, who are largely FLEEING cartel violence, bring almost none of it. 0.02% of th asylum seekers detained at the border were carrying ANY kind of opioid, and most of it was for personal use.
the American opioid and fentanyl crises are demand-side, not supply-side, and the best policies to address it are those that address the root cause of the demand. support universal healthcare, mandatory sick and injury pay nationwide, and anything else materially shown to increase worker quality of life. that affects finance, that affects the economy, and it affects you. finance is politics.

Maybe you’ll learn something but honestly I doubt it.

Oh and added for good measure.

"70% the illegal weapons seized from criminals in Mexico come from your country. We do not produce these weapons, nor do we consume synthetic drugs. Tragically, it is in our country that lives are lost to the violence resulting from meeting the drug demand in yours." - President Sheinbaum to Trump.


You do realize it was The US government gave the Sinaloa cartel guns to try and pick a winner to the cartel war because they thought it would be easier to fight one cartel as opposed to several cartel. Those guns have killed politicians, police, military, and civilians throughout Mexico.


Wanna stop drugs? Stop the demand for it. As long as thereis a demand, it’ll never stop coming.

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That’s a very anti-American commie take on things. Here is how we fix the problem:

1) Declare war on the cartels and make their lives short & difficult
2) Death penalty for human and sex traffickers.
3) Abolish the ATF and repeal the NFA. You seem to know that a lot of Mexico’s guns come from the USA, but do you know that many were handed out by our own government? Operation Fast & Furious…look it up. This is just one incident that was obvious and proven, but there are many more.
4) Increase the criminal penalties for drug dealers and illegal arms dealers
5) Hold Mexico accountable for their part in allowing the cartels to operate in their country and export death & destruction.
6) Finish the wall
7) End amnesty for political asylum seekers and remove the incentives for illegal immigration
8) Increase border security funding a remove the hamstrings of the Biden administration

That’s a good start.

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Originally Posted by Solkern

If Mexico and Canada are going to pay for the tariffs, why are prices going to increase?

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Where was your outrage when Biden left Trump's tariffs in place from his first term?


Everything leftists do is performative.

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Originally Posted by Suppressed Poet

That’s a very anti-American commie take on things. Here is how we fix the problem:

1) Declare war on the cartels and make their lives short & difficult
2) Death penalty for human and sex traffickers.
3) Abolish the ATF and repeal the NFA. You seem to know that a lot of Mexico’s guns come from the USA, but do you know that many were handed out by our own government? Operation Fast & Furious…look it up. This is just one incident that was obvious and proven, but there are many more.
4) Increase the criminal penalties for drug dealers and illegal arms dealers
5) Hold Mexico accountable for their part in allowing the cartels to operate in their country and export death & destruction.
6) Finish the wall
7) End amnesty for political asylum seekers and remove the incentives for illegal immigration
8) Increase border security funding a remove the hamstrings of the Biden administration

That’s a good start.

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It wasn't the UK's fault for distributing opium in China, against China's will, it was all the Chinese opium addicts fault.

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Also, you can't home school your children or they won't learn to interact with other children, like they do in public school, where we all were introduced to recreational drug use.

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Originally Posted by Methais

Where was your outrage when Biden left Trump's tariffs in place from his first term?


Everything leftists do is performative.

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The Jewish Mexican Princess, who won the Mexican election after multiple political opponents were assassinated, knows what she is talking about.

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Originally Posted by Solkern

The Mexican drug industry only exists because Americans have a huge demand for cheap drugs due to our insane lack of a work-life balance, poverty, and an inability to afford medical care that's not just drugs. Americans drive over the border, buy cheap mass-produced opioids from the cartels, drive it back over in the trunk of their 2020 Honda Civics, and sell it to other Americans for a profit. immigrants, who are largely FLEEING cartel violence, bring almost none of it. 0.02% of th asylum seekers detained at the border were carrying ANY kind of opioid, and most of it was for personal use.
the American opioid and fentanyl crises are demand-side, not supply-side, and the best policies to address it are those that address the root cause of the demand. support universal healthcare, mandatory sick and injury pay nationwide, and anything else materially shown to increase worker quality of life. that affects finance, that affects the economy, and it affects you. finance is politics.

Maybe you’ll learn something but honestly I doubt it.

Oh and added for good measure.

"70% the illegal weapons seized from criminals in Mexico come from your country. We do not produce these weapons, nor do we consume synthetic drugs. Tragically, it is in our country that lives are lost to the violence resulting from meeting the drug demand in yours." - President Sheinbaum to Trump.


You do realize it was The US government gave the Sinaloa cartel guns to try and pick a winner to the cartel war because they thought it would be easier to fight one cartel as opposed to several cartel. Those guns have killed politicians, police, military, and civilians throughout Mexico.


Wanna stop drugs? Stop the demand for it. As long as thereis a demand, it’ll never stop coming.

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You better hope joeyb shows up again and proves he is still more retarded than you.

This is the dumbest thing I've read on the Internet today.

Congrats on adding "tariffs" to the long list of shit you know nothing about.

Canada’s oil patch rattled by Trump's tariff threat

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Mr McConaghy said that would lead to job losses in Alberta, with potential repercussions for Canada as a whole, as poorer provinces rely on cash transfers from revenues generated by wealthier provinces - like Alberta - to help offset costs and provide social services.

It could also lead to a devaluation of the Canadian dollar at a time when the currency is already struggling due to domestic economic factors, he said.

“Keep in mind, roughly 80% of Canada’s trade is with the United States, and a majority of that trade is in hydrocarbons. Canadians can’t escape how integrated they are with the US.”

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is promising to present a united “Team Canada” front and to work together with the incoming Trump administration to avoid the blanket tariffs.

The leaders of major Canadian provinces like Ontario, Quebec and Alberta have urged Trudeau to act quickly on these demands, and on Wednesday, Trudeau held an emergency meeting with provincial and territorial leaders to discuss how to move forward.

Danielle Smith, premier of Alberta, said her province will be “working aggressively” in the coming months to connect with US counterparts and to drill home the message that a strong partnership with Canada would be of benefit to the US and its energy security.

She said that in her view, Trump “and the tens of millions of Americans who voted for him have valid concerns” related border security.

She and other premiers, Smith said, have asked Trudeau to come up with a comprehensive border security plan.

Smith also said the province is exploring the option of creating specialised sheriff units to patrol its own shared border with the US state of Montana.

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Oh hey look at that. Canada is already worried about the effects these tariffs would have on their economy and even the premiers of provinces are looking into creating specialized units to patrol their land borders with the US in order to make Trump happy and possibly avoid these tariffs.

But that's all impossible! According to Solkern, resident dumb ass, the costs of tariffs are simply passed off to the American consumer and literally nothing else changes.

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Originally Posted by Tgo01

But that's all impossible! According to Solkern, resident dumb ass, the costs of tariffs are simply passed off to the American consumer and literally nothing else changes.

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Most people who think this way about tariffs probably have no internal monologue either.

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Originally Posted by Tgo01

Canada’s oil patch rattled by Trump's tariff threat

Oh hey look at that. Canada is already worried about the effects these tariffs would have on their economy and even the premiers of provinces are looking into creating specialized units to patrol their land borders with the US in order to make Trump happy and possibly avoid these tariffs.

But that's all impossible! According to Solkern, resident dumb ass, the costs of tariffs are simply passed off to the American consumer and literally nothing else changes.

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Once again, Trump is playing 3d chess and leftiest like Soykern are playing booger flicker.

Mexico’s President Says She’s Sure Country Can Avoid US Tariffs
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...oid-us-tariffs

ClydeR & Solkern: Do you guys still believe there will be a 25% tariff imposed on Canada & Mexico, or can you see past your TDS to comprehend the obvious negotiation tactic? Again, this should come as no surprise as Trump made this same threat back in 2019 and it worked.

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Originally Posted by Tgo01

If a store can buy tomatoes grown in America that cost 1 dollar for a package, or buy tomatoes grown in Mexico that cost 1.25 dollars per package, guess which tomatoes the store is going to buy?

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Why would imported tomato prices increase? It's amazing how little belief Trump's supporters have in Trump's promises. Trump promised tariffs would not raise prices, because foreigners would pay the tax..

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At a rally in Arizona in mid-August, he claimed that Vice President Kamala Harris, his Democratic opponent, is lying when she refers to his tariff plan as a “Trump tax.”

“She is a liar. She makes up crap … I am going to put tariffs on other countries coming into our country, and that has nothing to do with taxes to us. That is a tax on another country,” Trump said.

In September, he repeated the claim during an interview with Fox News: “It’s not a tax on the middle class. It’s a tax on another country.”

And he said again during a rally in Wisconsin Saturday that “it’s not going to be a cost to you, it’s going to be a cost to another country.”

Vance said in late August that as a result of tariffs Trump imposed during his presidency, “prices went down for American citizens.”

“They went up for the Chinese but they went down for our people,” Vance added.

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If you want to understand Trump's reasoning, here is a good summary.. https://prosperousamerica.org/consum...t-a-sales-tax/

All 10 points in the above article are, in my opinion, valid only in the short term.