Re: I Salute the Democrat Party

On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 06:31:02 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
<ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Ed Stasiak <user1263@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
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BTR1701

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You've become the party of big business

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Indeed.

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How are steel and aluminum tariffs not going to raise the cost of
manufacturing of almost everything? How does the consumer benefit?

Because it will bring steel production back to the USA. Admittedly it
will take a few decades for that to happen and only if future
Presidents continue the pain on the consumers. And only if
steel/aluminum production is cheap enough in the future to keep costs
down.

So the idea is we have pain now and for the rest of our lifetime to
hopefully (Fingers crossed) it will bring down costs and provide jobs
in the future. The far future.

If you listen to NPR, they pretty much daily harp on
the horrors of tariffs and how average working class Americans
are going to get raped at the grocery store, all because Trump
isn't letting China flood the U.S. with their products (all the
while China tariffs the shit out of imported American stuff).

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They've denied their own consumers the benefits of world trade. Not the
problem of the rest of the world.

We provide tariffs on Chinese goods that we want to limit in this
country like EVs. This is something that was happening before Trump.

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Why don't you demand a solution for bringing down domestic manufacturing
costs? The problem isn't isolating American consumers from world trade.
It's the sky high cost of land.
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Find a graph that makes this point, that land values began rising faster
than the rate of inflation starting in the late '70s/early '80s. You
think tariffs will solve the land problem, given that land values in
decent areas nearly doubled during COVID? Of akk people you think might
get this, it's Trump.

Trump may actually get it, but why should he care? It doesn't impact
him or his friends.