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Trump not winning - Nothing more than a guess proven wrong. Yes, people would have argued it was more than a guess... but it was simply a guess based on baseless polls and opinion.
Tariffs on China bringing back Manufacturing jobs - Similar to saying Trump won't win. It's a baseless guess. In this case, the people saying it don't understand basic high school level economics. This combined with other regulation, could potentially bring back manufacturing jobs, but not on its own, obviously. I'm not pro-regulation myself, but a lot of people are.
Embrace Socialism - another baseless statement. A capitalist society cannot embrace socialism across the board.
It’s not a baseless guess. Who wants to pay 30 bucks for a pair of slippers made in the usa that, at best, has a nicer box and a made in the USA label. It’s still going to get chewed up by the dog and fall apart in about two months....we’ll buy a similar pair made in Nepal or Mexico for about the price of the chinese slippers. The dumb unemployed American redneck will still be the same dumb unemployed redneck surviving on social welfare and hating socialism in between his bad grammar rants.
It’s not going to happen if you know anything about global economics......either you’ll be paying more for the Chinese goods, or paying for cheap Vietnamese substitutes, which will be even crappier. There will be no us jobs made this way.
To be fair, since the tarriffs, about 25% of our usually China made furniture has shifted to Vietnamese made, but the quality so far from Vietnam has been a big jump in quality over when it was made in China.
To be fair, since the tarriffs, about 25% of our usually China made furniture has shifted to Vietnamese made, but the quality so far from Vietnam has been a big jump in quality over when it was made in China.
That’s baloney. China has a far better educated workforce than Vietnam does. It’s probably better for the Chinese anyway as their stated goal is to move up the value chain. Let the vietnamese do the sweatshop work.
Democrats have a deep disdain towards men and women who work in factories producing high-quality tangible products and love to mock them as failures so 700,000+ tangible jobs where products are made by the hand's of hard-working American men and women means nothing to them.
I will gladly pay $5 more for a pair shoes and $2 more for a shirt personally if that means we have good made in America products made by the hands of hard-working Americans as opposed to cheap Chinese crap that is made to fall apart very quickly.
Those 700,000 jobs will mainly be in the patriotic, very Republican America-first South and Midwest as a family can buy a nice big home on a manufacturing paycheck in the a majority of the South and Midwest.
Liberal states with socialist-level taxes and high-fixed wages to discourage manufacturing and construction jobs won't be participating in the new jobs which is why liberal Democratic politicians dislike Trump's trade policy.
MAGA lovers love their fake Breitbart news.
In the real world, Trump is killing jobs left and right with his job killing tariffs that are cancelling out whatever boost he was getting from the tax cut
To be fair, since the tarriffs, about 25% of our usually China made furniture has shifted to Vietnamese made, but the quality so far from Vietnam has been a big jump in quality over when it was made in China.
Trump is going to make Vietnam, India and Cambodia great again
OP wouldn't know that. They are using Breitbart as their source for "true news."
The problem is, most Trump supporters share the same grade school understanding of how the world works, and how we tie into the overall world economy, as does their leader. They think it is so simple, raise the tariffs on countries, like China, and then American companies will begin cranking out goods and services to fill that void...………….not necessarily true.
If we built a "wall" around the entire perimeter of America tomorrow, and never brought one more item into this country from any other foreign source, it would do zero for our American companies. In fact, it would hurt most of them because they rely on selling their products overseas, as much as they depend on selling them to us. Downstream companies also rely on getting raw materials and parts from overseas so they can assemble and build things like appliances.
This isn't our first rodeo for attempting the tariff route. Bush put tariffs on steel imports in 2002, and we LOST 200,000 jobs. Trump's little plan is having the same results...…….not only are manufacturers being harmed, but so are farmers, etc.
I isn't as simple as Trump would lead his flock to believe.
Interesting article...
"For more than 30 years, Dollar Tree has made a singular promise to its customers: “Everything’s $1.” Not anymore."
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The Chesapeake, Va.-based retailer, which relies heavily on cheaply made goods from China, said this week that it had begun testing higher prices at some of its stores. Soon, more than 100 Dollar Tree stores around the country will sell items that cost up to $5.
That price increase, spurred by activist investors, comes as the company braces for millions of dollars of new tariff-related expenses that analysts say will disproportionately affect the chain and its lower-income shoppers. The dollar store industry is dominated by two companies: Dollar General and Dollar Tree, which also owns Family Dollar.
Dollar Tree “is the ‘poster child’ for tariff impact,” Judah Frommer, an analyst for Credit Suisse, wrote in a recent note to clients. “China is the source of a substantial majority of the company’s imports.”
The company, he added, imports about 40 percent of its merchandise directly from China. It also sells products from two dozen other countries, including Mexico, leaving it vulnerable to additional new tariffs being threatened by President Trump. Trump took to Twitter late Thursday to say Mexican imports would be subject to a 5 percent tax beginning June 10.
“At the end of the day, these tariffs are a tax on U.S. consumers, and they disproportionately affect the dollar store consumer who is living paycheck to paycheck,” said Anthony Chukumba, an analyst for Loop Capital Markets in Chicago.
Retailers across the country have warned that prices could rise by as much as 20 percent this year as they face higher costs on items such as shampoo, suitcases and salmon.
American families will pay nearly $800 more a year on everyday items, including cribs and toilet paper, as a result of the Trump administration’s tariffs on Chinese imports, according to a report by the Trade Partnership, a Washington-based research-and-consulting firm. That number will probably rise even more if similar taxes are levied on Mexican imports.
Congress priority is building a non working voting base not job creation - congress can give away in a week all the revenue mr trump can create in 2 years
As long as Santa Claus runs Congress a budget minded leader must climb a steep hill
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