Why Is The Tariff Issue Controversial?
Setting aside that it could depend on the size of the tariff and the product involved, if you stick to one proposal at a time why is there such a debate about each one of them? If you put a 50% tariff on widgets from Babylon it would seem to result in obvious results. Yet there is this big debate, Are people disagreeing about what the results would be or are they disagreeing not about the results. but rather about whether we want those results?
The very first few posts were criticizing how the tariffs will only raise prices for the American consumer, and then you started barking. I probably conflated your barking with other posters' barking. Apologies.
i've been incredibly clear and you can go back and read what i've written instead of your imaginary strawmen
Perhaps you were but it got blurred with all the "ZMOG! You guys are idiots" sentiments.
So in the interest of clarity and having it in all one place, please answer these yes/no questions and feel free to elaborate on why:
1 - Do you think the proposed tariffs will raise prices for US consumers on those products?
2 - Do you think the proposed tariffs will force China to pay more to manufacture those products?
3 - Do you think the increased US government revenue from proposed tariffs will benefit the average American?
Replace the word "posting" in your comment with "arguing," and you sound just like my wife 😃
When we have double digit inflation from tariffs and deportation and are in a huge recession/depression and supplies of many things that we all take for granted and have increased quality of life for average American are super hard or expensive to find, at least rickroll can sit back and smugly say “I never said it’d help consumers”
