President Trump, you have it backwards! Instead of taxing us more with tariffs, subsidize imports

If foreigners are dumb enough to sell us their hard goods made with real commodities and human labor, and they accept little pieces of paper with faces on them that our Federal Reserve can just print… BUY IT ALL!!!

Tariffs are taxes on Americans.

Worse, our money we spend on tariffs goes to federal government bureaucrats. The tariffs don’t go to our local communities. That money we pay goes to D.C. That’s the last bunch of bozos we need to give any more money to.

Instead… what Trump should do is subsidize purchases from foreign countries. Give them all the paper they will accept in return for their hard goods. Buy it all. Buy their avacados from Mexico, buy their maple syrup from Canada, buy their steel beams, buy their gold, buy Greenland, buy it all.

Hurry! Before they realize that we’re over here just printing these little pieces of paper.

Exactly, tariffs are a tax on the American people, Canadians aren’t paying it with our money, we put the price up, Americans pay the high price, your government wastes the money, enjoy the insanity

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Is this why Germany taxes our auto imports at 29% ? To tax their people? Or is it to protect their industry?

I guess others are the only ones allowed to that. Otherwise, it is considered a trade war.

That sounds good until Americans start losing jobs because of it, and when they lose jobs, they don’t buy houses.

Although we are in a global market and import much more then we export, we still need jobs here, but we need to be able to compete on a level playing field. Sometimes actions need to be taken to level the playing field, but these actions IMO need to be done with care and precision, not by taking a sledgehammer to it all.

How would it cost us jobs?

What makes you think they are not done with care and precision?

Trump has renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, declared the US only recognises two sexes, pulled the country out of the Paris Climate Agreement, frozen America’s giant foreign aid programme and threatened the global business elite at Davos with billions in tariffs unless they make their products in America.

“It’s been much more disciplined, on-point and issue-focused,” said Lawrence Muir, a former official in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.

Because cheaper materials and items would be bought from importers instead of manufacturing those item here, which means jobs.

Example: cheap chinese cars could put us auto makers out of business - Google Search

Low-priced Chinese EVs pose a potentially “extinction-level event” for America’s auto industry , the Alliance for American Manufacturing has warned. The trade deal that Beijing could potentially exploit — the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement — was negotiated by the Trump administration and enacted in 2020.

automotive industry employment statistics - Google Search

The automotive industry in the United States employs millions of people in a variety of roles, including manufacturing, retail, and repair.

Employment

  • In 2022, the automotive industry employed about 4.36 million people, which is about 1.3% of the US population

  • In May 2024, the automotive industry employed about 2.075 million people, which was a slight increase from the previous year

  • The automotive industry supports millions of jobs, including direct, indirect, and induced jobs

Job categories

  • Manufacturing: Includes vehicle and parts manufacturing

  • Retail: Includes car dealerships and accessory stores

  • Wholesale: Includes buying and selling cars at auctions to manage inventory

  • Repair and maintenance: Includes automotive service technicians and mechanics

Wages

  • The median annual wage for automotive service technicians and mechanics was $47,770 in May 2023

  • The median annual wage for mechanical engineers in the automotive industry was $95,300 in May 2023

  • Wages are expected to continue to rise due to a shortage of skilled labor

Talent shortage

  • The automotive industry is facing a shortage of skilled labor in areas like software development, data analytics, and cybersecurity

Tariffs?

If yes, I think a 25% tariff added to all imports from our largest trading partners is not what I would call precision targeting.

Targeting cheap Chinese EVs IMO is.

Two different animals.

  • One was to address the immediate emergency security issue at the border. (Or policy/political leverage.)

  • The other for economics.

Tariffs can be effective in both arenas. Even the leftist academics won’t argue against that.

No. It means loss of jobs for some in those particular industries (Automobiles caused job loss for buggy whip manufacturers). But the overall benefit of America trading little pieces of paper for hard commodities, land, and businesses like TikTock far outweighs that disruption. We’ll be basically gaining assets for Americans for free.

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And thank you for supporting our President.

I think we can still buy Greenland.

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Has anyone heard what trump negotiated for us, from Netanyahu, in exchange for us coming in to clean up and rebuild Gaza?

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Is Netanyahu now the ruler of Gaza? Is the eradication complete? Time for western powers to negotiate over the spoils and develop Atlantic City 2.0? Oh boy, this always works out so well. SMH. My prediction, it will be like a pack of hyenas with American tax dollars funding the lions share so in the end all of the world banks and investment capital groups can make billions.

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It appears so. Based on the fact Trump made his proclamation after meeting with Netanyayu, and while holding a joint press conference with him.

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