Mr. Trump idea of 10 to 20% general tariffs

[VitaMan]

Not quite getting your point regarding white collar labor vs. manufactured imported and exported goods.


But as a comment, I was on the phone this morning with Maersk Lines Germany. Ended up having to talk to the Philippines and India centers.


Also received 2 scam calls from India. One wanted to give me a new SS card, the other wanted to fix my cable service.

[texassapper]

Originally Posted by txdot-guy

Trump isn’t trying to deport millions of people to Canada. What incentives will we have to give Mexico to take back these people while helping to destroy a part of their industrial base?

Incentives? LOL. All we have to do is threaten to tax remittances and Mexico will do whatever we want. WE'RE keeping their economy afloat through remittance.

Originally Posted by txdot-guy

If the actual purpose of these tariffs is to restore the US manufacturing sector deporting workers to the places where we’re placing the tariffs seems more than a little crazy to me.

Probably because you never thought once about hiring Americans... thats a problem with the Democrats... they don't want gainfully employed citizens they want broke ass dependents... who will vote for more big Government. Who will in turn take more rights from the citizens.

Originally Posted by txdot-guy

I don’t see any rhyme or reason to anything he’s saying or doing unless pissing off pretty much every one but his base is the goal.

That's why you weren't elected and he was....

[Why_Yes_I_Do]

Originally Posted by VitaMan

...the other wanted to fix my cable service.

Heck fire, if they were going to do it within a 2 hour window, you should have taken the deal. That waiting between 8 AM - 5 PM stuff with American cable companies is for the birds...