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johnny johnny yes papa said:
70 IQ mental midget here, if every single country has the same amount of tariffs as the US don't they basically just cancel each other out? Like if we had 25% tariffs on Canada and Canada had 25% on the US for example.
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Essentially yes, but the point of tariffs isn't actually to make money for the nation using them. It's to entice industry into building and manufacturing their products in said country. So when the US tariffs less than Canada, it entices people to moving their businesses to Canada, provided the resources and whatnot are there.
It's why everyone has been moving to China, apart from the cheaper labor. China tariffs a decent amount, but the US doesn't in return. So it's more economically viable to move your business to China and then just sell the product in the US.
 
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Also the Tarrifs are retarded, America's main economic asset was that the US dollar was valuable and this is because people want to sell things to America and other governments having faith in America.

Trump is destroying trust in America and the tarrifs a long with the general decline of the American economy mean that pretty soon people will just want to export less to the USA anyways taking away all of America's leverage.

America just doesn't produce much anymore and can't really because labor would be to expensive and there isn't enough people to pivot to making more stuff domestically. America has a like 5% unemployment rate there isn't a lot of fat to trim in regards to potential factory workers.
 
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johnny johnny yes papa said:
70 IQ mental midget here, if every single country has the same amount of tariffs as the US don't they basically just cancel each other out? Like if we had 25% tariffs on Canada and Canada had 25% on the US for example.
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No, because not every country produces proportional amounts of the same stuff so prices will be higher and lower in various sectors depending on what you need to import. However, it will skew consumer preferences heavily towards local goods, which is part of the point.
 
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Buck Broken Chimp said:
America just doesn't produce much anymore and can't really because labor would be to expensive and there isn't enough people to pivot to making more stuff domestically. America has a like 5% unemployment rate there isn't a lot of fat to trim in regards to potential factory workers.
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There's a labor surplus in DC now.
 
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What's the long skinny on Take It Down?
From what the blurb says, basically banning AI porn of people but what's the catch?
 
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Trump seems to sincerely love his hot Eastern european trophy wife
He just praised her in front of the whole country.
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When I become President and give a SOTU speech, I'm going to talk in graphic detail about how I bone my wife and how much I love her. Trump got nothing on me.
 
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