[Jim W N]

I’ll repeat: tariffs are like shooting yourself in the foot. Just because another country stupidly shoots itself in the foot doesn’t mean you have to.

[wetgundog]

I don’t buy Government Motors (GM) CRAP, and never will. F GM and the Kenyan donkey you rode in on.

[BRL]

Tariffs are a second tier issue for me. I am undecided about them. But trump is nailing it on all my first tier issues, so i will live with it

[edh]

“I’ll repeat: tariffs are like shooting yourself in the foot. Just because another country stupidly shoots itself in the foot doesn’t mean you have to.”

Very true, but they’re a great negotiating threat ... if you threaten a country with a tariff on your products and they either eliminate or cut their tariff, you win. I think that’s the goal of these tariff threats.

[Parmy]

The problem with your thinking and analogy is that the other guys put tariffs on U.S. products that are egregious. And, if they don't us tariffs to impede imports to their countries, they use very unfair rules for quality and other reasons.

When it comes to espousing opinions about subjects such as tariff, one has to know the total background of the situations.

Most of us, in the hinterlands, don't. Trump does. That is his job, and he is doing it bigly.

[central_va]

The 30 year globalist experiment in "Free Trade" is an abject failure. Why? because the rest of the of world didn't play along and used the USA like a cheap whore.

Why does the rest of the world almost universally practice protectionism? And name a country with lower average tariff rates than the USA. Answer these questions or shut up you all of you globalist hacks.