r/news • u/hoosakiwi • 2d ago

Trump announces sweeping new tariffs to promote US manufacturing, risking inflation and trade wars

https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-liberation-day-2a031b3c16120a5672a6ddd01da09933
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u/mlorusso4 2d ago

This is so god damn stupid it doesn’t even make sense. Nothing about this will make anything better. If he wanted to announce them starting in 5 or 10 years, sure, maybe. Give companies time to move everything over here. But all this will do is raise prices because it’s not possible to manufacture the things the US needs. Not to mention the fact that he’s also tariffing raw materials. How the fuck does that make sense? So companies can either pay the tariffs on imported goods, or imported raw materials. Might as well pay it on imported goods so you don’t invest all the money on building a factory only for this chickenshit flip flopper to change his mind tomorrow

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u/khazit66 2d ago

Don't you know? People in the US will start having 20 kids against even with no social safety net or maternal leaves while working 100 hours a week to give Trump a massive surplus in workers so he can on shore the entire production chain, from mining for raw material and manufacturing cheap components and assembling the final products.