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Trump promises $2000 tariff dividend to all Americans

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It's going to take longer than 6 months for manufacturing to return to the United States. I'm a patient man... Let's see how things look after 4 or 5 years of tariffs.
Do you know why people, and this will almost certainly include you, prefer to buy goods that are manufactured overseas? Clothing, shoes, white goods, Tv's, computers, mobiles..?
 
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We'll, it's a win for Ford, there's no doubt about that. But from the White House:

'Therefore, of the 16 million cars bought by Americans, only 25% of the vehicle content can be categorized as Made in America.'

And that's because the ones Made in America are more expensive. Now you're going to have less choice in what you buy and what will be available will be more expensive. Like the man said, it's a good deal for Ford. It ain't a good deal for you.
 
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Do you know why people, and this will almost certainly include you, prefer to buy goods that are manufactured overseas? Clothing, shoes, white goods, Tv's, computers, mobiles..?

Because they like to buy affordable cheaply made things produced by slave or child labor whose profits go overseas to authoritarian regimes so that the Chinese government can continue to modernize their military and give them a worthy peer to peer force that the United States can face in a future battle space?
 
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When did liberals become fiscal conservatives?
Trump seems to aways prompt them to go in the opposite direction. If he promoted breathing they'd hold their breath.
 
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Do you know why people, and this will almost certainly include you, prefer to buy goods that are manufactured overseas? Clothing, shoes, white goods, Tv's, computers, mobiles..?
I don't think that's actually true. Americans want quality products more than cheap foreign junk. The exception would be high quality products made in places like France, Germany, Switzerland or Italy. We'll gladly pay for their top goods.
 
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