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377 views 21 upvotes Made by chutethemall 19 hours ago in politics
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3 ups, 18h
yes... Trump used them in his last term and libs want everyone to ignore they worked
0 ups, 1h
Left wingers don't want America to be strong, independent, and a model for the world. Left wingers want America to be weak and depend on other countries because of the lie that America is racist and completely at fault for slavery. It destroys their narrative if America wins.
1 up, 2h,
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from countries without excessive nonsense regulations?
0 ups, <1h
It doesn't matter where they come from - tariffs are taxes American companies and consumers pay the American government when buying imports, and Trump has made clear he will levy them against friends and enemies alike (as he did in his first administration).

You'll pay those taxes, and they'll be used to pay the welfare payments to farmers and factory workers who are out of work having lost their foreign markets to retaliatory tariffs.
0 ups, 1h,
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Machinery (including computers and hardware) – $213.1 billion
Minerals, fuels, and oil – $189.9 billion
Electrical machinery and equipment – $176.1 billion
Aircraft and spacecraft – $139.1 billion
Vehicles and automobiles – $130.6 billion
Medical equipment and supplies – $$89.6 billion
Plastics – $66.5 billion
Gems and precious metals – $63.8 billion
Pharmaceuticals – $48.4 billion
Organic chemicals – $40.2 billion
a year.

These are our top imports, which basically can all be fabricated here, there are very few items that need to be imported. Now take these costs and add them together and subtract it from the national debt, America doesn't have to be at the mercy of foriegn nations is we just had better leadership. That is a slam against both parties.
0 ups, <1h
They can't all be fabricated here though - that's the point - we have neither the demand nor infrastructure in place to do so.

The most American "Made in America" car on the market has, at most, 75% of its parts domestically sourced, so putting tariffs on imports means a huge increase in car prices, both foreign and domestic, and that same dynamic plays out across every single sector you've identified here.

Also, the national debt has jack shit to do with this conversation - you're conflating industry revenues with free cash, and if you were to nationalize the profits of those private companies, investors would dump them so fast we'd be in another great depression before you finished patting yourself on the back for being so smart.
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