Causing rising inflation and reducing US economic growth are two of the fastest ways to increase the deficit and add to the debt.

I completely agree with Trump that running a 2 Trillion dollar deficit is unsustainable. Getting things back on track requires drastic measures and will take time. Look what happened in Argentina for example.

The solution: Don't let the far left run your country into the ground if you don't like losing elections to people like Donald Trump.

No. The numbers trump presented for foreign country tariffs are fake and roughly related to the US trade deficit with that country. The higher the trade deficit, the higher fake tariff number they threw up on the board. If you don’t have a trade deficit with the US well those countries still got a 10% tariff anyways because fuck them too apparently is our new government moto.

the dow is up +134% in the past 10 years when inflation was +36.5% I feel pretty secure in my retirement thanks

Automation surely is a thing but it's a well known fact that companies have moved production to China because it was cheaper and that's what we were discussing.




Useless post. Without drastic measures nothing would change.

Look what happened in Argentina after a leftist government ran the country into the ground.

I feel like elites probably should have actually done a better job at helping out the folks negatively affected by their policy if they didn't want something like this to happen. Bill Clinton signed NAFTA into law, normalized trade relations with China, cut welfare, and passed that hilarious now controversial crime bill. All the while telling Americans to just educate themselves if they don't want to become impoverished. I do wonder if this is going to help tho

Trump is implementing federal VAT like we have here in Europe via a legal loophole and people are losing their minds.

Pathetic really.

Can you share the real numbers with us?

You’ll have to dig into each sector and country. It’s generally not as simple as X country charging a blanket tariff.

Here’s how the numbers they presented were calculated though:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93gq72n7y1o.amp

Brings in more fish I guess... pretty smart right??



This post was edited by Metalwise4u on Apr 3 2025 07:23am