How come the republican supporters are not upset about the new tariff war?

@DeluxedEdition in an ideal world, farmers would do what they're good at and car makers would do what they're good at and swap produce... People doing what they're good at

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@DeluxedEdition Problem is, retaliation can go both ways.
With buying overseas, the reason that happens is because American made products typically cost more.

Now while it is true that a lot of American companies and even politicians are afraid of trump, other nations are not going to back off so easily. Trump doesn't get to call the shots for countries in which the US is indebted to. Some of these countries could probably buy America outright.

It sounds like a good idea about except America allowed that to happen in the first place. They are not going to back down now.

BTW thank you for the civil, intelligent response. I know often times these discussions turn to childish insults between people.

@dancingtongue I was specifically talking about the economy and the great screw up Biden was with it.

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@jshm2 Thing is, companies would just pass those costs onto the customers.

@sunsporter1649 Good bye to our money for your defense industries. https://fortune.com/2025/03/09/defense-giants-rearm-europe-bae-thales-rheinmetall-leonardo-saab-airbus-safran-fincantieri-dassault/

@NewWorldToronto Why is it okay for everyone to tax America but have an issue when America decides to impose the same percentage tax on OUR goods as the goods coming in?

These tariffs are retaliatory. We are proposing the same percent of taxes that are taxed on our goods. Perhaps considering reducing or getting rid of your taxes on our goods. You complaining is hypocritical. Everyone thinks it's America's responsibility to compensate for everyone's lack.

@DeluxedEdition I think retaliatory are a great idea...but so far that is not what he has been doing. He also needs to honour the free trade agreement he signed.

@BohemianBabe I do not know much about it myself, except it is likely to cost the everyday citizens while making the rich even richer.

@LordShadowfire Most people wake up and think once a matter hits their wallets. I mean I would guess.

@hippyjoe1955 Of course Germany has not been imposing tariffs on American cars imported to Germany, right?

@sunsporter1649 They ain;t gonna white-flag it, they will just impose their own. And guess who really loses? Us, the customers.

@Punches And of course no other countrty has tariffs imposed on American goods imported into their countries, right?

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Sure, and it's bad for the workers in those countries too. Imposing tariffs on other countries is a way of crashing the economy so that the rich can buy up everything for cheap. Soviet officials did this when the Soviet Union fell, thus becoming the Russian Oligarchs of today. In America, rich people did this during the Great Depression.