You stopped responding, likely because it occurred to you why those corporations sent factories overseas-cheaper labor. The unskilled/blue-collar worker hasn’t had a raise (inflation adjusted) since the 70s. Tariffs are not a tax on the poor. It brings corporations home and raises wages for the least skilled. As for pricing, the last time tariffs were raised, China subsidize the tariff in order to move product and incentivize corporations to stay. Meaning, the burden was placed on the Chinese tax payer. We run a ginormous trade deficit and the worst thing for our economy is cheap Chinese goods. It is NOT a tax on the poor.
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Walmart has lowered cost of living for millions of people
you left that out of your equation
tariffs are not going to bring a lot of jobs home
it's all automated now anyway. there are no more ditch diggers
Haha no I didn’t? Where are the good made on Walmart shelves? We’ll teach you to critically think before it’s over.
they're made in China by people who used to be much more poor
Haha that’s debatable. Value falls to the marginal cost of production. Chinese governments who enslave children and Uighur Muslims aren’t making the least among them more wealthy. And I don’t want poor and hungry individuals anywhere. But who do you want to control America’s economy and, really, national security (steel, API for pharmaceuticals, etc)? I work with Americans week in and week out that can’t afford to feed a family real food on a blue collar job. They don’t know why their health is failing at 35 years of age and the thought of buying a home is something of dreams. There will always be poverty no matter where you move jobs. But I’ll be damned if I advocate for another country taking American’s jobs so that corporations profit.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/us-blacklists-29-chinese-companies-over-forced-labor
Here’s those Chinese people you think are so much better off now.
p China is run by evil people for sure but they would be even worse off without Walmart who lifted hundreds of millions of them out of poverty
Children and Uighur Muslims would be better off without them. That’s not an argument against tariffs serving the American people more than another country with a communist/dictatorial leaning.