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© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2019.Trump threatens car import tariffs in new warning to Mexico
By Roberta Rampton and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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SimondB
Does Trump not realise that when he imposes a tariff it is the American people who pay it? Somebody should quietly tell him. Still, no need to worry. This time next week he would have forgotten he said this and will come up with some new nonsense.
PTownsend
Trump, a property developer who's relied all his life on armies of highly paid lawyers, accountants and people who actually understand business to help him maintain his inherited wealth, is once again shown he doesn't understand the world of business and trade. He's out of his element and in over his head on this, too.
bass4funk
Whatever works, whatever he needs to do. He and his staff will figure out the best way to hit Mexico and send a warning shot and if that doesn’t work, then he can and will close the. Order, either way, you are now seeing more Democrats agreeing that the border is becoming a serious problem and if you have an Obama loyalist like Jeh Johnson calling this situation a crisis then you it’s very bad.
bass4funk
A lot, but you wouldn’t know that since the media was on their Russian collusion hoax jihad.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/trumps-list-289-accomplishments-in-just-20-months-relentless-promise-keeping
bass4funk
And the next President will add to that as well.
Ahhh, from the liberal perspective one-sided truth, I guess so. Lol
PTownsend
Are you including in your definition of 'socialists entitlements' subsidies for corporate farms, subsidies for oil corporations plus the trillions the military spends defending their interests around the globe, and of course the 'questionably necessary' government contractors who get subsidized healthcare, among the other wealthy receiving government handouts?
Scrote
Didn't Trump agree a replacement for NAFTA with Mexico only last year? Now he plans to break the agreement before it even begins. This shows that there is no point making any deal with Trump as he will not uphold it.
If Trump is worried about illegal immigrants why doesn't he get on with building his wall? If he is concerned about drug smuggling he should punish drug users in the US more severely to limit demand.
bass4funk
Specifically, from cradle to grave medical for all, single payer, the number of farms as opposed to the millions of Americans that get sick daily and the astronomical cost it takes to care for people subsidized by the government of our size is unsustainable as well as illogical. If the Democrats really want to do good for the nation, limit healthcare to only the 22 million that can not afford insurance, not the rest of the country that enjoys their privatized healthcare system.
Yes, you need to protect the nation and with growing threats from China and Russia, it is imperative to have a very strong military.
Serrano
Best president ever. Put the pressure on. Have to stop this human catastrophe at the border.
Schultz: Trump is right on border control, Dems wrong on ICE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqee9lOhSF8
bass4funk
I did, I want him to close the border, so he wants to possible go with tariffs, seems like a first good step and if it doesn’t work, he can then shut the border down.
I’m from California tell me about it. Lol
First I’m not a right winger or even a Republican, Trump is an outsider that is the main nucleus for opposing the man and why the establishment hates him with a passion. He was a former celeb, but always commented as an outsider about politics and then later decided to get into politics, thankfully and take on these establishment bozos which i deeply admire.
plasticmonkey
Do these establishment bozos include Elliott Broidy, George Nader, Steve Mnuchin, Wilbur Ross, Andrew Wheeler, Betsy De Vos and her brother Erik Prince, and Elaine Chao? Not to mention dirty tricksters Paul Manafort and Roger Stone? Just wondering.
plasticmonkey
Since you brought it up the other day, where was Obama born and what is his ethnicity?
Jimizo
Is medical care on US bases for civilians in Japan free?
Toasted Heretic
The truth is irrelevant?
Above all else, uber alles, apparently.
Toasted Heretic
Which Mexico? There's several of them, according to Fox...
Gemma Seymour
The headline should read, "Trump threatens to raise taxes on Anericans if Mexico doesn't comply with his asinine demands", because that is what will happen if import duties are raised. Americans will pay higher prices. Only a person with a complete lack of understanding how trade works could possibly believe it is Mexican companies who will pay these taxes. Which is, of course, to say that neither Trump nor his worshippers have a single iota of business acumen between them.
Sneezy
We call these people "Republicans".
kurisupisu
Surely, the American government,,with the most powerful military in the world can defend its border?
SuperLib
Everyone but Trunp fans knew the border closing was an enpty threat.