Trump just imposed massive tariffs on imported steel. America doesn't have the capacity to produce all the steel it needs so it has to import. New steel making capacity will take years to bring online. Bottom line? Enjoy paying more for everything! So much winning!
Bottom line: skip the retarded 'muh yearly upgrades' bait
Blake Roberts
dont fuck with me you know I got that charlie sheen
Isaiah Rogers
>New steel making capacity will take years to bring online.
Bullshit. The mill I work at is currently running at 30% capacity. The company just struck a deal with an overseas supplier to roll their stuff, and that still only puts us at 50%.
Camden Taylor
More well paying jobs that don't require a college degree as well as professional jobs which do on top of self sufficiency. That's good
Bentley James
higher tariffs protect us from being outbid on wages by dirt poor niggers and chinks.
Austin Ortiz
Wow I’m sure you’re quite the expert when it comes to U.S. economics Mr. Chang
Landon Sullivan
And drive up prices And this is before retaliatory tariffs back on us
Cost of living is retardedly low now and tariff fags want to drive it back up as an excuse for being too lazy or stupid to get a job
How about advocating for less taxes and regulations instead so things can be produced here cheaper you dumb fucking niggers?
Jeremiah Gray
>being poor
Nicholas Morris
I don't understand why Trump raises tariffs on imported steel if the US doesn't produce enough steel, that's stupid Maybe he wants Americans to start new steel producing businesses, businesses that will close if a non protectionist President is voted in the White House
Elijah Stewart
Some problems can't be fixed easily, cheaply, and quickly. Most, in fact. Stop being such a faggot.
Wyatt Taylor
Less competition will lead to US producers raising prices. The American consumer will lose bigly. Sounds pretty swampy to me.
John Clark
>Bringing back steel factories through tariffs
Wow sounds like another campaign promise fulfilled. Thanks for the info.
Liam Wood
why not both?
Thomas Russell
trump has learned the secret, the secret of steel.
Luis Green
It's another leftist leaf who knows things that simply aren't true. I'm shocked
Connor Gutierrez
Bush did the same thing and it lasted like a month.
Luke Baker
Oh fuck how will I be able to afford my weekly steel shopping now?
Jack Sullivan
stop steamrolling OP's stupid narrative he worked hard on it
Josiah Howard
>making your country more self sufficient in the long run >take a small hit in the short run
sounds like a decent trade off to me. being reliant on an enemy for something so necessary as steel has to be the most retarded thing you could do as a country
Jack Morgan
MORE TARIFFS TO HURT AMERICAN CONSUMORS
Blake Walker
Redpill me on the secret
Hudson Powell
>less competition >not paying chink slave niggers 2 cents a year for your materials
Justin Watson
>raise prices and sit on your ass with demand outpacing supply >not investing in expanding supply to make even more money I swear you mouthbreathing motherfucker, you need to take a fresh breath of chlorine
Charles Collins
>Hundreds of thousands of steel workers will be employed again and it will marginally increase the cost of building skyscrapers oh no
Carter Green
These tariffs are retaliatory.
China operates with an average tariff of ~15% and do all kinds of trade manipulation
Landon Bennett
b-but we should let them do it so we can pay a dollar less on already cheap goods!!!
Nolan Torres
No point arguing here. Trumptards don't understand basic economics. Free trade isn't up for debate; it's the one issue all economists agree on.
Jace Nelson
>America doesn't have the capacity to produce all the steel it needs so it has to import
Carter Adams
I know, this lolberg argument is literally the most Jewish shit you can imagine and people gobble it up uncritically in academia.
Supposedly the one thing all economists agree on is that free trade is good, but that actually contradicts the economic history where countries have only ever industrialized under tariff regimes.
Brandon Peterson
so we're making america more self-sufficient by not sending all our money abroad to buy cheap, shitty chink steel? that's step one in MAGA. makes it easier to turn isolationist and stop waging wars across the world for the profit of the jewish neocons and neolibs of the military-industrial complex
Andrew Rodriguez
>when you dont understand comparative advantage or any basic economic concepts and think tariffs are maga maga maga winning
Lincoln Moore
A domestic steel production is necessary to wage war. A domestic oil supply is necessary to wage war. All the snowflakes better buckle up your ass to going to war. Fucking liberals can die in a muslim country fighting for America.
Adam Roberts
We have several mothballed facilities that were not allowed to be destroyed by order of the Department of Defense specifically to allow for wartime production demands.
There's one in Wyandotte, Michigan that is being retooled as we speak to come back online in 2020.
Jason Lopez
China doesn't have a comparative advantage, they subsidize their industry to flood the market and gain market share. Now they're starting to hold their resources and capital of foreign corporations hostage.
The free trade/comparative advantage model is entirely hypothetical and was conceived of in the 1700s when capital and labor weren't mobile.
Ethan Taylor
>sacrificing all values for lower prices Go to the back of the oven.
Aaron Murphy
If driving up prices is bad why do you want to raise the minimum wage so bad?
Luke Allen
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Colton Lee
OH NO IF ONLY THERE WAS IRON WE COULD BUY TO TURN INTO STEEL
also shitlibs should be happy about aluminum
Christopher Thompson
>America doesn't have the capacity to produce all the steel it needs so it has to import. That's not why it's imported.
Lucas Ramirez
>but goyim your shitty walmart trampoline is going to cost $1 more now
Hudson Johnson
>countries have only ever industrialized >industrialized It's almost like there's a reason for that you dumb nigger
We should adopt centeralized town markets again so we can move from a feudal agrarian economy to a specialized one right
How fucking stupid
Lincoln Cooper
Why is hiring?
Jose Anderson
>America doesn't have the capacity to produce all the steel it needs so it has to import Bullshit.
Cameron Ross
Yeah the reason is because they put restrictions on dumping so that the domestic industries had to invest in capital to increasing productivity and market share.
Julian Walker
>had our manufacturing jobs not been offshored, this wouldn't be a problem.
sorry to derail your narrrative, leaf
Zachary Baker
>oh no, literally everything will cost more Ftfy
The worst part is that these increases won't be readily identifiable, but growth of things like steel will be. So the retarded idea will be reinforced
It's like when government started mandating public school after the trend of literacy was already parabolic and then claims credit for it
Or like roaches thriving under a refrigerator
Xavier Thomas
Our country need to do away with importation entirely. We must go to war with Australia and make it habitable for human life, then suck its resources dry.
Dylan Wood
just make more mines dumbass lol
Hudson Powell
We shut down our steel mills to import, senpai. What's so hard to believe here?
Jason Martinez
>donald pump >tank top >DYEL disgusting
Jacob Ross
Gee, maybe we'll have to ramp up production.
Do you Leafs even business?
Brayden Thompson
>If driving up prices is bad why do you want to raise the minimum wage so bad? >If driving up prices is bad why do you want to raise the minimum wage so bad? >If driving up prices is bad why do you want to raise the minimum wage so bad? >If driving up prices is bad why do you want to raise the minimum wage so bad?
Juan Howard
But im making more after the tax cuts?
Mason Lopez
>t. leaf that knows nothing In Cleveland we still have the steel factories barely producing anything. If we open some back up and up production everything is going to be fine.
Luke Foster
>specific industries did better so it's better overall >being a brainlet When your entire economy revolves around those industries, protecting them is fine
When your economy has barely anything to do with flailing industries, it's fucking retarded
Owen Green
>maybe we'll have to ramp up production.
Wew lad capitalists are going to start producing again in America because of tariffs and not go to the most exploited nations to do so like Vietnam. Ask Japan and Europe how tariffs are working for their shit economies.
Jonathan Wood
Note to self: Never sell call options again.
Ian James
>thinking you could survive in this fucking humidity
Dreamer
Joseph Moore
Who are you talking to?
Christian Allen
Yes! Time for the US steel industry to dominate once again.
Jonathan Robinson
if paying more for things is the price for approaching autarky and having our nation actually give purpose and means to its citizens, then that is more then welcome.
David Hernandez
I can't believe we have a nostalgia based economy
Really activates my almonds
Samuel Morgan
By literally everything, what are you talking about?
Steel is used in construction, the building of capital will cost more, but loans are already 0% interest, so there's no real increase in the cost of consumer goods
Noah Moore
The US industrialized under a uniform tariff
Easton Smith
That's how jobs are created numbnuts.
Connor Ramirez
A thriving steel industry is necessary to fight a war. Just think, it could only be a matter of a few years before American tanks roll across your border and liberate/kill you Canadians!
Free at last, free at last!
Nicholas Jackson
>I can't believe we have a nostalgia based economy
Yes there are retards on here who think this is going to help them. They apparently think this is the 1800s again.
Austin Sullivan
I'm not in Canada like you LEAF. We still have mills. A bunch of them. The only thing we're doing is shutting down China's subversion tactics. No wonder you're so mad mr. REAF
Gabriel Stewart
Why not just nationalize all industry? Everyone will magically get a job now Mr. Gun grabber Trump!
Landon Scott
>0% interest makes the money come out of thin air >No real cost No real cost you will see, it's all marginal economics spread out. Did you even read what I wrote
"When your entire economy revolves around [industrialization goods], protecting them is fine
Nathaniel Martinez
t. neocon kike
Brody Ortiz
Great boomer tier """argument"""
Nathan Jones
if you don't increase immigration and lift all tarriffs our economy will be awful, please think of the economy
Jose Wood
Canadian steel worker here. How fucked am I?
Isaac Russell
>Great boomer tier """argument"""
This is effectively what pol has become under the orange gun grabber in chief. No arguments, only name calling.
Brody Morgan
>No real cost you will see, it's all marginal economics spread out. Did you even read what I wrote >"When your entire economy revolves around [industrialization goods], protecting them is fine They only started producing them competitively because of the tariffs you dip. Britain industrialized by stealing the cloth-making industry from Flanders through quotas and tariffs. China has high tariffs compared to everywhere else.
This is actually a constant in economic history. Tariffs lead to industrialization as long as you have an internally competitive market
Charles Martin
we certainly should nationalize amazon, walmart, and other monopolies that are destroying are country.
Blake Young
la hoja
William Baker
>bloomberg kek
Colton Russell
The prices are never going to be high enough to make up for the increase in wages. The only people who benefit from free trade are the top kikes.
Jackson Harris
You're SO fucking stupid you manage to read my posts and the distinctions and still fail to grasp what I'm saying
Figure it out before replying dumb fuck
Jonathan King
first he gives HUGE tax cuts to buisness now buisness has plenty of capital to absorb tarriff finally economic viability to create 10s of thousands of jobs in america. how is this not a win?
Jace Harris
>I don't understand margins or macroeconomics: the post
Juan Phillips
>macroeconomics You mean the fictitious science that has crippling physics envy.
Angel Reed
I understand it, it's wrong.
Countries large enough to be autarkies can employ tariffs without any long-term negative consequences.
Of course Luxembourg placing a massive tariff on oil wouldn't work but that's exactly the autism you're trying to defend where there's a consistent and litigious means by which you can decide economic policy; There isn't. Tariffs will usually benefit large countries like the US if they have the capacity to increase supply domestically at marginal increases in price.
Jose Peterson
so its 2002 all over again, get hype for massive unemployment
Mason Martin
>trump-says trump says a lot of things that won't happen
bush tried the same thing and got buttfucked by the EU for it
Jeremiah Sanchez
Looks like the factories will have to open again. Only fuck off leaf, you will rangeban yourself soon.
Carter Jenkins
Fuck you leaf this is great we btfoed lolbertarians boomerfags and yuropoors all at the same time
Dominic Campbell
Trumps whole plan was cut buisness taxes and we will make up for it elsewhere. if 200k people are hired and then pay taxes gdp will rise. mining, foundries, transport all will grow hugely.
Bentley Murphy
>you need science to understand how things work on a wider scale over time Wew >I understand, it's wrong >still posts about how economies where the economies revolved around industrial goods benefitted from tariffs >even after I conceded that point with a caveat >three times now I said don't reply to me moron
Landon Morales
Boomerfag detected
Lucas Campbell
lmao asd blasted chink
Elijah Bell
Boomer's can't say kike, they will go to hell for even thinking that that specific middle eastern ethnicity may actually be against them.
Jonathan Lopez
(((the """"""""science"""""""" of economics)))
Easton Nguyen
>200k people hired being paid x wage >cost to the economy is greater than x wage times 200 >brainlets think it's working because theycant see the unseen Y'all niggas need bastiat Boomers are the nostalgiafags pushing steel retard
Christopher Rodriguez
>the steel mill I definitely, truly work at is only at -1% capacity. Thanks to GOD EMPEROR TRUMP I will be a millionaire! MAGA MAGA MAGA MAGA Pro tip: If your ideas aren't shit, you can argue them without lying.
Charles Ross
So steel mills will open back up and we will have new jobs and a more stable self serving economy? O no!
Daniel Wright
Trump boomers can
I just said you don't need science Is there anybody in here who even passes the lowest is threshold to argue in good faith?