Friday, June 15, 2018

ZOMG TRADE WAR PANIC AAAAAAAAHHHH!

Or not.  I have said it before, and some people at work actually rocked back and thought about it when I challenged them with this:  I will accept the prognostications of a "trade war" when they can explain to me why our tariffs are bad, but all the existing tariffs of our trading partners are good.  80% tariff on our steel in Germany, but we don't have that against theirs?  270% tariffs on our dairy products in Canada?  That's "free trade"?  No, that's free-loading trade.

Anyways, those days are on hold for at least a little bit.

They are seeking to ensure their own gravy train doesn't get derailed. This is why they tell you, in between informing you how stupid you are, that there are only a few tariffs out there and they don't matter. Well, they sure as heck don't matter to these think tank jockeys and media scribblers. They are not the guys getting up at 4 a.m. to milk the cows or to harvest the soybeans the tariffs target. They've never worked on a vehicle assembly line in their lives, so what’s it matter to them if Germany’s tariff on US cars is four times ours to theirs? Of course, the tariffs on US products don't matter to the elite. They aren’t the guys who lose their jobs when their company picks up and moves to Vietnam.

Read it all, of course.

2 comments:

Drumwaster said...

Yeah, the most common explanation is "The US can afford to pay them {other country] can't". That somehow equates to "free and fair".

I point out that Trump offered a complete tariff-free agreement, everything traded across borders, just like we do with States, and Trudeau turned it down.

One jackass said "That's no true, Trump would never have said anything like that". I pointed out that Trump has been in favor of "Making America Great Again" and "NAFTA sucks" since Day 1 as a candidate.

Rivrdog said...

I was jailed at Facebook for showing a GOVERNMENT chart with these tariffs to Canadian Liber-Loons and putting Junior Tru-dop's name on it.