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>>herber+(OP)
Dems just need to spin these tariffs as the largest tax increase in US history (which is basically correct).

>>sender+w6
It's also a tax on everyone, to the benefit of large corporations which can now increase prices / decrease value), due to less competition.

>>mmooss+D9
Which is one of the reasons the countries with high tariffs have had worse economy overall and specifically much worse than the US economy. The higher your tariffs the worse the protected industry and the whole economy.

>>trhway+bh
Yes - with free trade, the US is the wealthiest economy in the history of the world. Economic research says it works. What is the reasoning for throwing it away?

I hear the nonsense reasoning from the Trump crowd, but many know it's nonsense even as they say it. What is their real goal here?

>>mmooss+yn
The problem is they don't think it's nonsense. They really believe this will pay down the deficit, bring jobs back to the US, make it great again.

They see it as closing loopholes - "rebadging made in China as made in Vietnam, Thailand, Japan? Nice try, Trump's smarter than that!"