Trump Started Trade War Because He Was Angry

[whell]

Originally Posted by Chicks

WTF does Chuck have to do with the WH contradicting itself? You really do have reading comprehension issues, or you’re an idiot; most likely both.

Well, first of all, you're publishing an "alleged" contradiction, because the NYT story is based on a leak.

The findings from the White House Council of Economic Advisers have been circulated only internally and not publicly released, as is often the case with the council’s work, making the exact economic projections unknown.

But hey, feel free to circulate the fake news.

The point is, however, that in posting the NYT story, you're also pushing the idea that tariffs "must" be hurtful, and Trump is "stupid" for using them.

However, both Trump and Schumer are both asking for Canada to address the "dairy" tariff. So I guess they both want to "hurt economic growth", as your leaked, fake news NYT article contends?


I'm not making this claim, but it wouldn't surprise me if Trump and Schumer were working out some kind of deal with Trump addressing one of Schumer's policy concerns. I wonder what Trump might get in return, if true?

[Chicks]

Originally Posted by whell

The point is, however, that in posting the NYT story, you're also pushing the idea that tariffs "must" be hurtful, and Trump is "stupid"...

There you go, putting words in my mouth, and completely missing the point again. Sigh. No wonder you’re a Trumpie, you just don’t get much of anything.

[whell]

Originally Posted by Chicks

There you go, putting words in my mouth, and completely missing the point again. Sigh. No wonder you’re a Trumpie, you just don’t get much of anything.

Apparently you don't even "get" the essential elements (or absence of) of the NYT story that you posted.

[Chicks]

Originally Posted by whell

Apparently you don't even "get" the essential elements (or absence of) of the NYT story that you posted.

You don’t ever bother to think, you just react. You’re exactly like Donny. What an idiot.

[Pio1980]

This incompetent asshole is beyond a National embarrassment.

[donquixote99]

Whell misses every point we make. On purpose. They are our points, see?

[whell]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Whell misses every point we make. On purpose. They are our points, see?

Maybe your "points" are just non-sense. Chicklet's latest post as a perfect example: a NYT story Chicks thinks is somehow significant. However, the writer of the NYT story hasn't even seen the document upon which the story is based.

[Chicks]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...2b1_story.html

Other presidents have understood that the United States has gained, disproportionately, from a system in which it helps keep the peace without keeping crabbed accounts on its national ledger. Mr. Trump sees his duty as the issuance of ill-defined demands for “fairness” on countries that, if they so chose, could tick off their own long lists of U.S. economic practices that do not please every single one of their domestic constituencies. Mr. Trump’s bone of contention, Canada’s admittedly unwise and protectionist dairy “supply management” policy, illustrates the point, since the United States also has elaborate programs to prop up its dairy farmers, to protect sugar planters, and so on.

Meanwhile, Mr. Trump remains indefatigably conciliatory toward Russia, which he proposed to readmit to the G-7. This is consistent with his admiration for strongman rule and with his transactional, amoral notion of relations with other countries, but it would contradict punishments that Western countries, including the United States, have just imposed for Russia’s unconscionable assassination attempt in Britain. And it would reward Moscow at a time when its interference in the 2016 election remains unresolved.

“We have a world to run” was Mr. Trump’s justification — which will come as a surprise to countries that have not agreed to be “run” by him, or Russia, or the other G-7 members, for that matter. If it is the United States’ portion, in partnership with other peer nations, to lead, that imposes a responsibility to do so in more than its own narrow self-interest.

[Rajoo]

Match % tariff's on high ticket items would be a fair way to go about it, especially cars and other high $ items.

[nailer]

The exception being audio equipment.