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Trump Tariffs Cost 5 Jobs for Single Job Gained, Analysis Finds
The Daily Signal ^ | March 9, 2018 | Fred Lucas

Posted on 03/12/2018 10:25:15 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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To: dynoman

Heritage Foundation aka Globalist GOP Open Borders dirtbags. Amnesty Slimeballs.


41 posted on 03/12/2018 10:57:23 AM PDT by Okeydoker
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Not exactly true. The goal is to balance trade...ie, fair trade by squeezing competing economies to reduce there current unfair tariffs and practices. With a long term view, it is better to fight to win and make the enemy surrender.


42 posted on 03/12/2018 10:58:16 AM PDT by D Rider
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

This from the free trader folks who told us that NAFTA and all the trade agreements since would open up new markets to American made products and create new jobs in America. And, for the few middle aged factory workers who might lose their jobs, why, they’d retrained for the high tech, high paying jobs of the future.

These folks have probably told more lies since the NAFTA debate forward than any other identifiable group of Americans other than Democrat politicians.


43 posted on 03/12/2018 10:59:36 AM PDT by Will88
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Yes, the tarrifs were just announced. Are they trying to say there has already been firings???


44 posted on 03/12/2018 10:59:56 AM PDT by Crucial
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The “analysis” assumes facts not in evidence.

Trump set up the tariffs to be implemented at his discretion on a country by country basis.

It is a TOOL to with which to manage trade.


45 posted on 03/12/2018 11:00:18 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

American made screws, you mean the kind that don’t strip their heads when you apply force? Hmmmmm? Its still worth the tariff to get nails that don’t bend when you hammer them into wood and make wrench sockets that don’t strip or break when trying to loosen a nut.


46 posted on 03/12/2018 11:03:34 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (he kid, now that you finished)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The Trump administration’s new tariffs on steel and aluminum from abroad could result in more than five jobs lost for every single job gained, according to an analysis from a group that [hates tariffs.]

Color me stunned.

47 posted on 03/12/2018 11:04:19 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“according to an analysis from a group that advocates free trade.”

So a study commissioned by an advocacy group, found results that exactly match what the advocacy group wants to hear????

Shocking I tell you, shocking.


48 posted on 03/12/2018 11:05:21 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: DouglasKC

I got an update from a local powdercoating company that I deal with every so often.

They are raising prices 10% across the board because of the tariff.

Eventually I hope to have my own capability.

There is other stuff that is higher priority.


49 posted on 03/12/2018 11:06:19 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Anther steaming pile of liberal/globalist lies.

Based on a computer model that is almost as accurate as the climate model that says we went under water in 2010.


50 posted on 03/12/2018 11:06:27 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Republican 66 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

This is a joke, right?


51 posted on 03/12/2018 11:07:01 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Disinformation from the same folks (traitors) that gave us NAFTA, GATT, and have been pushing TPP.....

.....the GOPe class of folks who live so well off Wall Street investments know practically nothing about the meaning of having the opportunity of earning a living through having a real ‘blue collar’ job.....

The ‘born with a silver spoon in their mouth’, PREPPY CLASS have controlled this country far too long......


52 posted on 03/12/2018 11:08:25 AM PDT by Trump_vs_Evil_Witch (Meuller, Comey, Wray, Strock, Rosenstein,......co-conspirators to Obstruct Justice & treason)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I don’t believe this.

If raising taxes on foreign goods does this, imagine how much worse it is when income taxes are raised. Now, you know we have virtually no tariffs, so, imagine if the roles were reversed and we had virtually no income tax and we had a 30% tariff—would that not be a much better life for all?


53 posted on 03/12/2018 11:09:05 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
You mean to tell me that five Chinese communists loose their job for every one Amercan job gained because of tariffs? (the real truth-). Sucks to be a rat communist I guess. I think I should care about American jobs. Not Chinese communist jobs.

Marxist Mob and/or Globalist rat propaganda.

54 posted on 03/12/2018 11:10:07 AM PDT by User901
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

There are no countries that have free trade.


55 posted on 03/12/2018 11:10:51 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
It's fact that jobs are created when tariffs go into effect. Just as the inverse is true, a lack of a trade tariff destroys jobs in the USA.

You can argue tariffs are inflationary but you cannot argue that it will cost jobs. That is so stupid as to be not worth commenting on.

Maybe we should import EVERYTHING and then we would have full employment!! //sarcasm

56 posted on 03/12/2018 11:11:10 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
It's fact that jobs are created when tariffs go into effect. Just as the inverse is true, a lack of a trade tariff destroys jobs in the USA.

You can argue tariffs are inflationary buy you cannot argue that it will cost jobs. That is so stupid as to be not worth commenting on.

Maybe we should import EVERYTHING and then we would have full employment!! //sarcasm

57 posted on 03/12/2018 11:11:29 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

With this logic if we stop making anything and import everything we will be in economic nirvana and full employment!


58 posted on 03/12/2018 11:13:46 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Louis Foxwell

>>The analysis misses the fact that free trade cost 5 jobs for every one gained by tariffs, precisely the reverse.

The Free Trade Globalistas like to cite the fact that new jobs replace lost manufacturing jobs.

Of course, economic theory and the federal government agree that “no net job losses” is true even when a $60k/yr career with benefits is replaced by a part-time job at a convenience store.


59 posted on 03/12/2018 11:13:51 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (Asking a pro athlete for political advice is like asking a cavalry horse for tactical advice.)
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To: wally_bert
They are raising prices 10% across the board because of the tariff.

Stop with those facts, you globalists, socialist, negative nellie. Trump has got this, now shut and follow along you. Trump's assumption that we have 100's of thousands of ex steelworkers just waiting around and steel companies with billions in capital just ready to purchase equipment and ramp up production. We have neither, so what it's job training and low interest loans to the steel industry? See the slippery slope? Call me cynical but this was a political move if I ever saw one. Please save me the pieties about "What about defense capability and the ability to purchase materials?". We have enough steel making capabilities to make more than enough tanks, Humvees and artillery pieces. this is a bad move and historical data has proven without a shadow of doubt that in the long run leads to trade wars and overall raising prices of consumer durables and other goods. Petulant politics usually leads to unforeseen consequences.

60 posted on 03/12/2018 11:17:42 AM PDT by pburgh01 (Negan all the MSM)
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