Trump is fucking with EVERYONE's money, friend and foe alike.
By "fucking with" I assume you mean "America First" in some weird dialect, right?
This is what people were asking for...
Oh, no...Orange Man Bad.
And, just to head things off at the pass...no, this wasn't rolled out perfectly. Yes, there is some serious bullshit going on. No, I don't give blanket support to the entirety of the tariff scheme. Some of it is retarded, and Trump's messaging has been especially schizophrenic on this, and I condemn that.
But that idea that relatively low tariffs across the board is a bad thing is hilarious.
Relatively low tariffs? The average is 30.8% ... that's not low!
Orbán is Trump's BIGGEST supporter in Europe and he's taken shit from the EU for it, even losing business over it. Trump is still taxing Orbán 10% like some petty mafia thug. Where's Rodger Stone? Steve Bannon? What happened to Matt Gaetz? Flynn took a plea bargain to protect Trump.
Again and again, Trump betrays his strongest supporters while he himself gets betrayed by the ones he embraces most.
Well because they account for non-tariff barriers as well, like currency manipulation and trade imbalances. If you were actually interested in it, Trump and his team have been explaining it quite well. I don't care all that much, so I haven't been paying super close attention.
But you're not interested in any of the details, you just want to bitch.
Er yeah? That's the point of RECIPROCAL tariffs, it's being applied to countries that tariff US goods.
And from what I heard, Argentina and Vietnam won't suffer this at all because they've signalled going ZERO tariffs on US goods. Just remove all tariffs, have no tariffs applied to you and what do you know, GENIUNE free trade happens.
Er yeah? That's the point of RECIPROCAL tariffs, it's being applied to countries that tariff US goods.
Did you not read the fucking title? What tariffs does Hungary have against the U.S.? People keep say "RECIPROCAL" and yet there's a base 10% tariff on ALL countries, NO exceptions. HERE is a list of the reciprocal tariffs, which are higher.
But again, minimum 10% tariff on ALL countries, NO exceptions. It's stupid policy that betrays our allies; and 10% will have a bigger impact on smaller nations than on larger nations. There's nothing an ally like Hungary can do to avoid being taxed because Trump thinks he's a gangster in Goodfellas -- "Fuck you, pay me!"
By "fucking with" I assume you mean "America First" in some weird dialect, right?
This is what people were asking for...
Oh, no...Orange Man Bad.
And, just to head things off at the pass...no, this wasn't rolled out perfectly. Yes, there is some serious bullshit going on. No, I don't give blanket support to the entirety of the tariff scheme. Some of it is retarded, and Trump's messaging has been especially schizophrenic on this, and I condemn that.
But that idea that relatively low tariffs across the board is a bad thing is hilarious.
Relatively low tariffs? The average is 30.8% ... that's not low!
Orbán is Trump's BIGGEST supporter in Europe and he's taken shit from the EU for it, even losing business over it. Trump is still taxing Orbán 10% like some petty mafia thug. Where's Rodger Stone? Steve Bannon? What happened to Matt Gaetz? Flynn took a plea bargain to protect Trump.
Again and again, Trump betrays his strongest supporters while he himself gets betrayed by the ones he embraces most.
Why did you send/delete the same comment multiple times?
Why do you keep lying that all the tariffs are "rEciPriCaL"?
I never said that though?
Well because they account for non-tariff barriers as well, like currency manipulation and trade imbalances. If you were actually interested in it, Trump and his team have been explaining it quite well. I don't care all that much, so I haven't been paying super close attention.
But you're not interested in any of the details, you just want to bitch.
Er yeah? That's the point of RECIPROCAL tariffs, it's being applied to countries that tariff US goods.
And from what I heard, Argentina and Vietnam won't suffer this at all because they've signalled going ZERO tariffs on US goods. Just remove all tariffs, have no tariffs applied to you and what do you know, GENIUNE free trade happens.
Did you not read the fucking title? What tariffs does Hungary have against the U.S.? People keep say "RECIPROCAL" and yet there's a base 10% tariff on ALL countries, NO exceptions. HERE is a list of the reciprocal tariffs, which are higher.
But again, minimum 10% tariff on ALL countries, NO exceptions. It's stupid policy that betrays our allies; and 10% will have a bigger impact on smaller nations than on larger nations. There's nothing an ally like Hungary can do to avoid being taxed because Trump thinks he's a gangster in Goodfellas -- "Fuck you, pay me!"
They're part of the EU so unfortunately even if Hungary hasn't applied tariffs as a country, the EU itself has applied tariffs FOR them.
And before it became the bloated, bureaucratic monster it is today, this was something it was supposed to stop.
Wasn't this because of minimum VAT or sales tax in EU countries.
I don't care. Ricardian theory of comparative advantage is BULLSHIT in an era where both capital AND labor are freely mobile.
It's like no one has paid attention to anything that has happened to US manufacturing since 1980 or so.
Right? Suddenly leftists love Chinese slave labor.