Crazy Trump's tariffs are backfiring on the U.S.
- Thread starter Trumpet
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Bought coffee lately? Bananas? Beef? A power tool? Major appliance? And the peak hasn’t even begun to hit yet, when businesses run out of the overstock they obtained before the tariffs went into effect the consumer will face the consequence.
Walmart quietly jacks up prices — despite Trump’s demand for retailer to ‘eat the tariffs’
Photos circulating online, particularly on the Walmart subreddit, have documented dramatic price hikes of more than 100% on some items.
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And the U.S. economy in the second half of the 19th Century was grounded by cheap labor, there was no reason to look elsewhere to import products, or are you recommending Americans return to low wages to produce cheap clothing
cawacko
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Sorry, I missed this earlier. My first memories of trade talk was Ross Perot and the giant sucking sound. He was already framing workers as victims
George W Bush signed trade deals like CAFTA and I remember democrat speaking out against them because it would hurt American workers.
I thread from 2008 was posted in this thread earlier and it was liberals on the board speaking out against trade with China and how they harmed the working class and American workers.
In 2008 Barack Obama went after Hilary and tried to tie her to her husband‘s support of NAFTA and pushed back against free trade in the name of supporting workers.
And of course, Bernie Sanders built his movement around the idea that American workers were getting screwed by global trade. Trump is certainly not the first to engage in this anti-trade rhetoric.
Trumpet
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Your mind is all garbled-up.
Tbird19482
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The MAGA on here laugh at me when I tell them how much coffee has gone up. Well a 42.5 oz can of coffee at BJ's was $9.99 in late Dec, last year and early Jan. this year , and NOW it is $19.99 a can a 100% increase.Bought coffee lately? Bananas? Beef? A power tool? Major appliance? And the peak hasn’t even begun to hit yet, when businesses run out of the overstock they obtained before the tariffs went into effect the consumer will face the consequence.
Walmart quietly jacks up prices — despite Trump’s demand for retailer to ‘eat the tariffs’
Photos circulating online, particularly on the Walmart subreddit, have documented dramatic price hikes of more than 100% on some items.
And the U.S. economy in the second half of the 19th Century was grounded by cheap labor, there was no reason to look elsewhere to import products, or are you recommending Americans return to low wages to produce cheap clothing
There was a MAGA on here trying to tell us coffee has only and he made sure I knew it was ONLY 33% PER LB.
Well take a 42.5 oz can and figure it out , that is over 2,5 pounds and that does equate to 33% per pound or 100% per can.
And from what I have read Trump increased his tariffs on Columbia even more, so how high will it go?
And NOT all of Trumps tariffs have worked through the supply chain and when they do it is going to hit a lot of low income workers and older people on fixed income really hard MAGAS included.
And if it hits the moronic MAGAS hard I can't fell sorry for them they voted for this and got what they wanted so they have NO right to cry about it.
I don't wish any harm on anybody but if it comes back and bites them in the ass really hard I say too bad ASSHOLE.
Tobytone
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Oh, thanks for the brilliant analysis, you're a real authority on 'garbled-up' I suppose.