is there somebody more specific than "an official"?
I've lived in the rust belt my whole life. I grew up walking past massive abandoned factory complexes and crumbling public spaces. And I have lived with an ever growing property tax burden as our industrial tax base has vanished.
A good chunk of those are probably people like me who only login from a single device.
You must be a finance Vampire.
Sorry I don't argue with spoiled manchildren pretending to be working class
>Industrial Revolution tier
Germany remained a manufacturing powerhouse until a decade ago, when they decided to kneecap their supply chains and input costs with Net Zero. It didn't get to be the engine of Europe by paying the lowest wages in Europe. America prior to the implementation of GATT and other free trade agreements following WWII was also a manufacturing powerhouse, not because of its cheap labor, but because of its investment, factor production, and technological endowment, during a time when the US maintained the highest tariffs in the developed world while maintaining the highest rate of economic growth. The idea that "a manufacturing-dominated economy is incompatible with high salaries" is non-congruent with history. Even China doesn't compete on labor costs anymore, otherwise SEA or India would be the world factory now, they compete on a highly developed manufacturing apparatus, similar to what the US once had.
The more I want to the more I feel it nessasary to just hold onto the money. I don't need it but better to have it than not to.
How much of that number is that dragged upward by a handful of absurd outlier salaries in the coastal regions, like the mega-autist programmers who work for Google, Apple, etc, while the vast majority of the country goes deeper into credit card debt to pay for groceries and utilities, because $50k/yr doesn't go anywhere nearly as far as it used to, even in flyover country?
Witness the rise of poojeets and their gross incompetence.
This. After seeing all the tariffs countries were implementing against us that I didn't know about- Fuck Em. You really think the world can take on the US after we spent an entire century disarming you faggots, good luck. These tariffs are 1000% deserved and earned.
To be sorta fair, the FDA is incredibly strict about good manufacturing practices (GMPs). There are European pharmaceutical companies that can't sell in the US because their facilities don't pass FDA inspections. US GMPs focus a lot more on risk while EU GMPs focus on, frankly, doing a shitload of paperwork and following established protocols and guidelines. EU inspectors also operate on a schedule while US inspectors show up unannounced, and often spend more time going after facilities that fuck up.
Y'know what's funny? I don't even give a shit anymore if the numbers match. I've heard practically every other country in the world shit on us for decades while we foot the bill for all sorts of things for them. Fuck 'em all. Crank them tariffs! Remind 'em who's really in charge.
These tariffs don't just take into account their "tariff rates". Some of these countries flat out don't accept some of our products (beef in Australia). Many of them have VAT (a tax) directly on all "value added" to every company including US companies. Some times permitting takes years. Some of them (like China) use government banks to heavily subsidize their industry (something I want the US to do). China also keeps their currency cheap compared to the dollar. Making further investment in China easier. China, India, Vietnam, Indonesia also don't follow any of the climate accords. Yet America pays for all of these climate agreements. There are many things besides a bill that says "this is the tariff I'm charging US goods" that makes our goods less competitive. These Tariffs take these things into account.
That's my hope (give me your rainbows), that this will bring most of these countries to the negotiating table and result in freer trade in the long run. I don't buy the arguments that tariffs are actually good economic policy.
Israel. Whose really in charge is Israel.
So you’re being a coward here. Faggot
Stop pretending to be poor please, it's embarassing.
"Tariffs are bad, they haven't been used since the Age of Sail, they don't work, no one uses them anymore, and they're always bad for the economy."
They are uninhabitable now but if China got wind they didn’t have any tariffs you bet your ass a shipping dock would be built tomorrow.
