Trump Didn't Start the Trade War, He is Ending it by Fighting Back.
The United States has been ripped off by crippling tariffs and regulations put on by foreign countries to keep our our products out of their markets so their people cannot buy them.
Before Trump, other countries could tax our products up the wazoo to keep them from gaining any market share, while at the same time we had 2.5% tariffs or less for their products coming into the Unites States. The result has been the loss of 90,000 factories going over seas to avoid their tariffs and a deindustrialization of the United States to such a point that we cannot product the things we need should there be a war or other national emergency.
The anti-Trump uniparty so called “Free Traders” literally define free trade as China taxing our goods 67% and we taxing their goods at 0%, and that is the fact they always leave out of their rhetoric.
Democrats used to talk about this quite often, that is until they became captured by Wall Street.
Well Donald Trump is the President of the United States, not the President of the Chamber of Commerce.
Sure, the stock market has taken a hit, but that is temporary, as the companies who sent their manufacturing off shore have to deal with the expense of moving it back home, but the good news is that the big car companies already have the infrastructure here to ramp up production at home in a short time.
Also, many countries are already coming to negotiate to end their tariff regimes. The United States is the largest consumer in the world, so in trade negotiations quite simply we have the cookie. The “trade war” won’t last long as the other countries simply cannot afford to wage it against us for long.
American Thinker:
Trump’s strategy isn’t to make tariffs permanent. It’s to use them as leverage—spikes to extract long-overdue reductions in foreign tariffs on American exports and restore industrial equilibrium. This is not protectionism for protectionism’s sake. It is conditional retaliation, calibrated to coerce—not collapse—the system. It is realpolitik in economic form: painful, yes, but potentially transformative.
As explained here, many of the loudest critics of Trump’s tariffs operate on a shallow and one-sided understanding of trade. In practice, what they call “free trade” has become a rigged system.
Marco Rubio: We cannot continue to go on as a country that doesn’t make things - LINK.
Excellent!