tariffs

Shocker, it didn't... but you can still continue to ignore they were lower under Trump.

You can lead a Liberal to facts, but you can't make them believe them.

So many news stories about prices and inflation went up because of Bidenomics... and they want to believe the pre-election propaganda put out by the WH... but the numbers don't lie.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/08/16/fact-sheet-two-years-in-the-inflation-reduction-act-is-lowering-costs-for-millions-of-americans-tackling-the-climate-crisis-and-creating-jobs/

LMAO.... propaganda...

Uninformed leftist repeating the same left wing propaganda that is blatantly false.

from countries without excessive nonsense regulations?

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.

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.

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.

"They can't all be fabricated here though - that's the point - we have neither the demand nor infrastructure in place to do so."

that is why you build, invest in fabrication factilites. We always had trade with foreign countries but this Idea that America can't exist without them is a complete and utter joke. It is so wrong that America needs everything imported that I am actually ashamed of you that you said it.

Don't get mad, Of course a booming economy and American made industry would start to impact the national debt lmfao If we produce more and import less, employ more Americans , the money already circulating wiill increase in value. You are factually incorrect about tarriffs on products as well. There can't be tarriffs on items Completely made in America, why do you insist on ignoring that fact?

No - nobody is going to invest in fabrication facilities for niche components for finished goods that can only be sold into a single market. That's how you turn Ford into Yugo.

Tariffs don't just raise the price of foreign goods, they also raise the prices of 100% domestic goods by reducing price competition, and of course they increase the national debt because now you have to pay welfare to all those people who can no longer sell their goods and services into foreign markets.

That is incorrect. You don't know what people will invest in , you have no idea at all. Companies that can produce everything they need here without outsourcing will see their fab prices drop significantly. Then you employ Americans , more people getting Good pay checks with things costing less means more money into the economy meaning less people on welfare. This is super easy stuff.

Your economic policy is idealistic wishes and rainbows that didn't withstand exposure to reality the first time, and won't fare any better a second time.

Usually if you think solutions to economy-scale issues are "super easy", it's your understanding of the problem that's flawed.

The first time around? , you mean when inflation was 2 % and my money had far more buying power ? That time? You mean when Trump brought in an Additional 30 billion dollars from china with Revenue tariffs that didn't affect prices at all? Economics 101 American made= good jobs = high pay/high quality, outsourcing = no jobs and piss poor quality. It really is super easy, my man, you need to stop making up problems that don't exist because you hate a person. 2016 to 2019 was a booming for me and everyone else, you want to ignore that because again, you hate a person.

You should thank the people who gifted Trump that decade-long economic expansion he tossed in the shitter then - by early 2019 we were already headed into a recession due to his out-of-control deficit spending with no anticipated (or realized) return.

Your dollars were devalued by more than 30% between January of 2017 and January of 2021 - you just didn't realize it'd happened because his bungling of the pandemic meant there was little on the shelf to buy if you made it out in the first place.

The only people I seen disproportionately dying were blacks, but since they murder each other so often in democratic cities.. you guys are used to that. Those numbers don't come up to often do they?

Don't come up often? Frankly I'd be alarmed if the right stopped blowing that particular dog whistle because you'd have probably swallowed it.

But yes, since you're playing the race card to feign ignorance - studies found higher excess mortality among Republican voters compared to Democrats, but only after the vaccines became available.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2807617

According to media reports, in Chicago, where African Americans comprise a third of the city’s population, they account for half of those who have tested positive for the coronavirus, and almost three-quarters of COVID-19 deaths.

Likewise, in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, African Americans make up 70% of deaths due to the coronavirus, but just 26% of the county’s population.

These examples are not exceptional, and the trend is not limited to African Americans. Golden says, “While much of the focus has been on African Americans disproportionately contracting and dying from COVID-19, other minority populations are also adversely affected, including Latinx/Hispanic and Native American communities.”

No but I guarantee you that is my telepromtper went out I could talk policy off the top of my head instead of standing there like a deer in headlights.

While that would no doubt be entertaining, it's not really the job, is it?

We aren't supposed to be electing someone who can talk about policies - god knows Trump can do that endlessly off the top of his head for weeks on end - but rather someone who can actually provide solutions to the real-world problems our country faces.

Donald Trump has demonstrated he has no capacity for action, no follow-through to actually do what he says he will. She has.

Also I love that you think Black on black murder rates are a dog whistle lmfao the muder rates are excessively high and continue to be. Meanwhile, the left oinks about Jan 6th nonstop. The left really do not care about black murder rates, Then your side has the nerve to call conservatives racist.

It absolutely is a dogwhistle - that's why you've brought it up here.

Good boy, roll over.

If it is a dog whistle, you are the one that came running over . Keep ignoring the black on black murder rates as you cry about conservatives being racist. Its so easy being a social justice warrior when you can blind yourself to real problems. Now cry some more about trump.

Ok, I see you're confused - in politics dog whistles aren't used to call people like dogs, they're language designed to appeal to specific groups in such a way that only they'll respond to it.

Like bigots or people whose understanding of the world has failed to develop after graduating high school.

The problem is, they're also brain worms, so those who have been successfully targeted with them can't help but uncritically echo those same sounds back out, revealing the fact that they were the intended audience in the first place.

2 points then I will let you have the last word cause my son wants to get on the computer,

1. If she can't talk policy or really anything without a teleprompter or an ear piece, she is going to get bend over in ways even she never thought possible on the world stage with real leaders from China, Russia, Iran adn any other hostile nation. to me, thinking is an absoulte nessessity for being a world leader, she has proven she can not think without help.
2. She has done nothing, she has proved nothing, she lies about anything and everything and then laughs when she gets confused, a horrible trait. Border broken, inflation/prices through the roof, Interviews pathetic, flip floppong on everything, no strength of character or moral authority what so ever. She is a puppet, she doesn't think or feel unless someone has their hand up her ass.

You really should try examining Donald Trump a little closer if you don't realize this is some hardcore projection.

Yea, cause Obama really had the country on the right economic path. ;D Headed to a recession? What world were you living in prior to covid? Cause from My stand point America was booming and my buying power was far stonger than it is now and I am making more money now than I was in 2016. BTW the whole world bungled the pandemic , So thinking you are gonna score some kind of points claiming Trump didn't do everything right during China's biological attack on the world, isn't winning me over. "Made it out" lmfao I guess you forgot that Covid had a 98.9% survival rate. Maybe if Americans weren't so fat , sick, and lazy, less people would have had issues.

I was living in the world where Trump's stupid trade wars and tariffs on friends and foes alike were causing American produce to rot in the field and the prices of raw materials for finished goods to skyrocket.

No, the whole world didn't bungle the pandemic, Trump turned us into its epicenter for both infections and deaths. First with his idiotic tweeting about travel bans, then by allowing millions to fly into and through the US from pandemic hotspots, and then by politicizing everything from the virus to masks and vaccines.

Maybe if Republicans weren't so stupid, they wouldn't have died disproportionately once the vaccines arrived.

IDK it seems that you responded like a dog, a dog in heat. Drooling at another chance to tell everyone how much you hate trump. I hope you find a hobby after that dude's term is finsihed, cause your life is going to be as empty as camela's head when he is gone.

Thinking you're smarter than a woman with a Juris Doctor - also one of those dog whistles.

Probably makes it easier for you to believe because she's black, right?