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Just playing devil’s advocate - tariffs, even if they worked great, were always going to take a long time to work. It was always going to burden us in the short term. But that’s kind of the problem with them. We couldn’t just go back and immediately start a bunch of factories up, and the people who might have the $ for that can’t trust that it will be worth it in the long run.

 

But Trump of course is a moron who doesn’t understand tariffs or trade deficits and he probably thought it would have an immediate impact. But he doesn’t even know what to look for when it comes to impact. 

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19 minutes ago, Moiraine said:

Just playing devil’s advocate - tariffs, even if they worked great, were always going to take a long time to work. It was always going to burden us in the short term. But that’s kind of the problem with them. We couldn’t just go back and immediately start a bunch of factories up, and the people who might have the $ for that can’t trust that it will be worth it in the long run.

 

But Trump of course is a moron who doesn’t understand tariffs or trade deficits and he probably thought it would have an immediate impact. But he doesn’t even know what to look for when it comes to impact. 

 

 

I would not have as big of problems with the tariffs if they were being implemented by someone who is honest with the American people in saying..."China is doing XYZ and we need to get them to stop.  So, in the short term, unfortunately we need to do these tariffs in which may raise the cost of some items to Americans".

 

But, we don't have that.

 

Let's be honest, China is doing things with our Intellectual property that needs to stop.  

 

We just have an idiot in office that doesn't have a clue on how to get them to stop.

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2 hours ago, deedsker said:

Member when Trump said he was going to get higher growth rates. Yeah, those were lies.

 

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He didn't lie about that anymore than Obama lied when he said you'd get to keep your plan/doctor. He just said a thing that didn't end up happening.

 

Problem is Trump did that about 100x as many things as Obama.

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1 hour ago, Moiraine said:

 

 

He didn't lie about that anymore than Obama lied when he said you'd get to keep your plan/doctor. He just said a thing that didn't end up happening.

 

Problem is Trump did that about 100x as many things as Obama.

Technically plans were supposed to be grandfathered in and insurance companies not meeting the standards had to cancel plans. It was half true.

 

Predicting what was considered double the best case projection on growth is just wrong.

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2 hours ago, deedsker said:

Technically plans were supposed to be grandfathered in and insurance companies not meeting the standards had to cancel plans. It was half true.

 

Predicting what was considered double the best case projection on growth is just wrong.

And trump stupidly really thought he could grow the economy 5-6%. 
 

both were stupid promises. 

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11 hours ago, deedsker said:

Technically plans were supposed to be grandfathered in and insurance companies not meeting the standards had to cancel plans. It was half true.

 

Predicting what was considered double the best case projection on growth is just wrong.

 

9 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

And trump stupidly really thought he could grow the economy 5-6%. 
 

both were stupid promises. 

 

 

Yep. I'm fairly sure Trump really thought it would happen. Obama's Black, so obviously Trump thought it would be easy to do a lot better.

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1 hour ago, knapplc said:

Apparently GOP voters really just want the wealthy to pay less taxes.  Such a charitable group!

 

 

 

Just think of how hard they have it. You get so much condemnation for having so much money as everyone tries to come get their piece. It is only fair that they get lower rates! 

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