Oh, sure. Spend billions on moving factories to a xenophobic, undereducated, and burgeoning fascist society instead of expanding into more stable, emerging markets without an unstable fuckwit for a leader.
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I mean, that's exactly what happened with China
Yeah because it was cheaper labor. The US does not have that level of cheap labor.
It doesn't have that level YET.
That's also not how that works. China can get away with having cheap labor because it also has cheap cost of living. But the cost of living in the US is ridiculously high. These tariffs are only going to make the cost of living go up.
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When your president failed ~~law school~~ kindergarden.
Here, corrected that for you
Dude, they did, under Biden's IRA. The one you just tore up.
Jesus, dude. This guy is too old, stupid and evil to lead.
This guy is too old, stupid and evil to lead.
Putin: perfect!
Or they can just stop providing products and services to america and expand in Asia, Europe and Australia
Failed law school? He failed elementary school
Does he really think businesses pay the tariffs? I doubt it
He knows they don't but he doesn't have to pay them and he couldn't bring himself to care about anyone else.
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IF US COMPANIES HAVE NO MATERIALS, THERE ARE NO JOBS.
He means he'll drop tariffs in companies start building here. Problem is, factory owners aren't stupid enough to invest in a factory that will become obsolete when these idiot tariffs are dropped.
Even if I had absolute confidence that the tariffs weren't going to get dropped there would still be no point moving a factory to the US because you would still end up paying the tariffs to get imports of components from China. Because you are definitely getting your components from China.
That's why tariffs have to be used with tact and they only target very precise items. If you want to increase the number of televisions produced in the United States you only have a tariff on completed televisions, not on displays, and not on microcontrollers. The Trump tariffs are on everything though.
Tariffs do not work.
Even if you just target one item, like this moron did with washing machines 8 years ago, what happened?
Imported washing machines went up 25% in price.
Domestically produces machines went up 25%, because why wouldn't they gauge more money??
Tariffs only hurt the consumer.
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Step 1: Move to the US
Step 2: I.C.E. deports all immigrants (both lawful and unlawful ones)
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Declare Bankrupcy? (because you don't have anyone to hire, since, you know, they deported everyone)
Our president is still trying to make this moron understand that he needs to be less of a bully with his country's friends. She is the only hope, short-term, to avoid severe consequences of tariffs in North America. I hope she's got intelligence and patience for both of them.
Do you mean Claudia Sheinbaum? (It isn't clear who you're talking about from your comment, but she would make sense.)
Yes, Sheinbaum. Sorry, I thought being her the only other president in North America would make it more clear.
... I was wondering if it was a musk joke...
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Walking advertisement for Wharton.
He actually thinks companies can say "hey, let's move all our shit to the US!" and they can snap their fingers and they're instantly here. Like they don't have to buy land, build factories, setup supply chains and work out logistics that would take a long time to do. Fucking moron.
Dumbass didn't learn from the Foxconn shit in Wisconsin lol
This is his idea of a school in the first place.
wow. he's not orange in the photo in the top of that article!
That's not true. You'll get terrified to hell and back by Canada and other reasonable countries
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