Quote Originally Posted by Lullapie View Post
You're spouting much of what the left-wing fear-mongers' are spouting. What about concentration camps, forcing women to not have abortions if they want them, splitting up mixed race families and making the white partner marry another white partner. The list goes on and on - why didn't you mention those?

The idea behind the tariffs, to anyone who understands the reason behind them, is to force massive US corporations to invest in America or to stop them from moving their factories overseas.

This in turn will create US jobs and take people off welfare. The US is the biggest economy in the world and it has been decimated by Democrat policies over the last 30 years.

You have to have lived there or have close contacts in the US to understand why nearly 75 million people voted for him in 2020.

GM reducing production to nothing in Michigan, Apple making nearly all of their products in China, John Deere planning on closing their Pennsylvanian production plant and moving it to Mexico - again the list goes on and on. Trump threatened John Deere a few months ago with 200% tariffs if they moved to Mexico and they reversed their plans. See it works and he wasn't even President.

Just as you and many others on here find it unbelievable how anyone could vote for Trump, for me I can't understand why anyone wouldn't. I am connected to a large business and commerce company and to me, his plans all stack up - I really have given up on people who don't get it.

A strengthening dollar makes imports expensive - therefore, it's more cost effective to produce within the US - isn't THAT Trump's plan? The only thing that the US doesn't currently have is cheap energy - but he has a plan for that too. Incidentally his plan was also adopted by Kamala a few days after Trump announced it.
As Driller rightly says, a strengthening dollar makes imports cheaper. So Trump then applies tariffs to make them all more expensive.
Then other countries impose their own tariffs and suddenly we are on a path to global depression.