Posted on 04/01/2024 2:40:10 PM PDT by backpacker_c
A majority of voters say they support slapping a 10 percent tariff on all imports, according to an exclusive new poll, in a boost to President Donald Trump's plan for reducing U.S. reliance on foreign producers.
According to the latest J.L. Partners/DailyMail.com 2024 poll, 24 percent of likely voters strongly support the policy proposal while another 30 percent tend to support it.
'European capitals and businesses might be quaking in their boots at the idea of Trump 2.0 on tariffs, but the American people welcome the policy.'
The poll tested the opinions of 1,005 likely voters on March 21. It has a 3.1 percent margin of error.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Yes it worked last time
Donald Trump’s plan for reducing U.S. reliance on foreign producers.
With China and India producing 80-85% of our Pharmaceuticals, that ‘s going to be a problem. Many critical products are in very short supply or “Out Of Stock”, for weeks and months already. The Pharma Supply Chain is something we NEVER should have outsourced.
Populist! Protectionist! Next thing they will be advocating is not fighting in other peoples wars.
I say rip the bandaid off and make it 50% for China
If we don't send our troops to foreign countries, we'll have to deploy them along our own border! When will the madness end?
We also ought to be slapping a 90% tariff on all private remittances from illegals here to their home countries. Hell, make it 100%.
The president needs maneuver room on tariffs. (I’m assuming a good president and not the current one.) When Italy backed the US in the Gulf War, one of the few countries to sign on early, the president rewarded them with a small arms contract. It really pissed off Congress, but it’s politics and the president needs room to maneuver. One way the US can support an ally is by lowering or eliminating the tariff on whatever item that country produces, oil, limestone, copper, etc. That can be used as a deal sweetener for whatever the US needs from that country. (A critical vote in the UN, a US base, an arms agreement, etc.) It’s up to the president to make sure the US comes out better off with whatever deal he’s making. (I trust Trump as he has our interest at heart.)
The reason US tariffs mostly disappeared after WWII is the US bribed up an alliance so we wouldn’t have to fight the Soviets. It worked great. The downside was that after a while US jobs fled overseas to lower priced venues. We stopped making socks, underwear and eventually clothing, shoes and a host of more and more complex and expensive cars and equipment. That’s reversing. Because of the way China is working the system, it’s likely to go away entirely. I’d say the foreign free ride was already on its way out since the fall of the Soviet Union, but Covid killed the International Order. Because of the breakdown of the International Order most supply chains are reshoring or “friend-shoring.” Our problem is hostile countries, like China, are building plants in Mexico to take advantage of NAFTA. I don’t think that will work under a Trump presidency. I also suspect that Ford, GM and Stalantis will get away with it either.
Bring pharma back here
“. One way the US can support an ally is by lowering or eliminating the tariff on whatever item that country produces, oil, limestone, copper, etc. That can be used as a deal sweetener for whatever the US needs from that country. (A critical vote in the UN, a US base, an arms agreement, etc.)...”
So the USA sold out its own industrial sector and blue collar work force in support of this sort of Imperialist agenda.
Brilliant !
China has money.
US and Euro politicians do not represent the people.
MOST are essentially for sale and have been bought by large corporations and the oligarchs which own them. They ALL share the same interests when it comes to globalization, mass migration, etc.
The nation is still the best way to organize a society, along common shared values and interests.
However, the modern politician like Biden, a Scholz in Germany... are best described as “supra-national,” in their world view and policy making. They pander to the voters, and issues like LGBTQIA, the border, climate change etc. cater to that, but on all the real issues, they literally sell their own people out.
Interesting ideas.
We bribed an alliance in the Soviet era.
IMHO that leads to more true free trade, where neither side has tariffs, instead of the fake free trade where only the U.S. has no tariffs.
“We bribed an alliance in the Soviet era.”
I stole it from Peter Zeihan.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=zeihan+on+geopolitics+
IMHO,
Today you have many organizations that supra-national: EU, NATO, UN, and organizations where heads of state and business meet to work out what are essentially drug deals for some sort of kick back, Davos, Bilderberg...
American business is no longer American, just like most big German firms are no longer really German. We still associate them with a country, but these firms are global in who owns them, global in where they sell their products, global in their supply chains and where they manufacture. In fact, in some cases what once was a traditional US firm makes more revenue abroad than they do in the US, they manufacture abroad, their owners are abroad... they simply have an Anglo name and brand recognition.
You and I think in terms of a nation. You and I live in a country, we have certain values, we want to see our country prosper and these values inculcated in the laws and policies of the nation.
However, both business and the political elite no longer really think that way and even the money which makes these politicians and their families rich or supports their campaign is largely international today (in a round about way, using either US lobbying firms or their US based subsidiaries like China does a lot). The nation is an old paradigm which the people of a respective nation believe in and the politicians pander to these sentiments, but at the national level the political elite in the West are largely globalist.
Sure got that right.
All taxes and tariffs are passed along to the end customer. When the competitor notices a price increase because of the tariff (not on them), they too raise prices to squeeze out more profit.
It’s still the end user customer that always pays more when it settles out. On top of that inflation rate increases as well.
That’s not his policy. He uses tariffs to leverage other countries into following his agenda, such as Remain in Mexico and guarding the border. He’s not a protectionist. Who writes this crap?
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