Criticize and then copy. Every time.
Flaired Users Onlymaybe Biden doesn't understand the basics?
Or the intern managing the account.
You mean KJP? This clueless take has her name written all over it.
Yeah didn’t she accidentally forget to switch accounts once lol
You know DAMN well he didn't touch those posts. 😆
The thing you didn't spot:
50% tariffs on solar panels
Hey remember that time in 2021 when Biden signed the Paris Agreement (that Trump rejected) that allocated something like $100billion/year to China and India in the hopes (because of course zero oversight or timetables or actual requirements) that they'd build up their green energy sector?
Bejing Biden is trying to pay America with our own coin.
Tariffs, like corporation tax, are paid by someone but no one is really sure who. It could be the Chinese, it could be the US, it's probably both.
Eh, it's not that simple. It's to stop countries (China) from destroying certain sectors of our home manufacturing capabilites. What China does is massively subsidize sectors of their economey to essentially pump cheap products into the U.S. and other countries to intentially destroy their manufacturing capability. Then when that's gone, they drop the subsidies and raise prices.
Putting tariffs on China is right, regardless of party.
My man! Well written
Absolutely well put
Tariffs are a poor fiscal tool, but they are great for strategic adjustments to global markets and supply chains. The danger is that when you employ tariffs, you also risk new coalitions forming that might not be advantageous; those tariffed goods are still going to be sold, just to different countries. This is basically what is happening with Brazil and China right now, and a large movement away from the USD to the Yuan.
It's like asking whether the shadow on the floor is caused by the table or by the vase on top of the table. It's kind of a nonsensical question in a way
The consumer pays....
And the producer.
Defiant L’s is easily one of the best follows on X.
How do you know elections are near? When democrats start acting like Republicans and steal their ideas.
I really hate how true this is
It was Obama's mission, really, it was especially hilarious in 2012, when Romney literally invented "Obamacare" in Massachusetts, when he was governor. Americans treat politician like a cult, and Obama still has that "cult of personality", even though his VP (who had plenty of time to learn the ropes) is a complete failure. Obama should have stuck to being a gym teacher or something...completely false leader.
I wish he were just false. He's just evil.
Get ready for shit to get even more expensive, everyone!
Eh, it's not that simple. It's to stop countries (China) from destroying certain sectors of our home manufacturing capabilites. What China does is massively subsidize sectors of their economey to essentially pump cheap products into the U.S. and other countries to intentially destroy their manufacturing capability. Then when that's gone, they drop the subsidies and raise prices.
Putting tariffs on China is right, regardless of party.
The government needs to use tariffs collected on Chinese goods to reduce income tax.
I'll believe that when I see it. I'm more likely to see pigs with wings, flying overhead, though.
It’s all just moving “money” around and playing politics. We’re still getting screwed, whether it’s via income tax or increased costs of imports due to tariffs. But people believe the smoke and mirrors… The reality is, mixed economics don’t work and it will always lead us into this corrupt Ponzi scheme. At some point they’ll take everything we have to make the numbers work, they can only cook the books for so long as we will all pay the piper eventually. Money is subject to the same rules of supply and demand as any other good. If only Washington admitted this.
…lol what
What what?
Biden has claimed his tariffs are more "strategic and targeted".
Trump has claimed Biden's tariffs are "too little too late".
It seems they both agree, or at least say, that their tariffs aren't the same, thus not a copy.
That said, Biden still did keep many of Trump's in place and there's a great deal of overlap.
More like Biden tries to copy what Trump did in order to gain favor with the voters. Except that he and his handlers have no idea why Trump made the choices he did in the first place.
It’s cargo cult politics.
Trump is correct, it is too little too late. So I live in Weirton, WV. Cleveland-Cliffs was a finishing mill that employed a large portion of the city. They recently “idled” (nice way of saying shut down, as it leaves a glimmer of hope of resumption of operation), and it was publicly stated that the whole reason for this is due to the importation of cheap steel from countries like China. The employees and operators BEGGED the Biden administration to impose tariffs to save the mill. People from his administration even visited the plant. They didn’t, and now over 800 people are without jobs in an already economically depressed area.
China makes over 80% of the worlds solar panels, so this will significantly raise solar prices in America if implemented effectively.
Not entirely sure this is a good idea, they seem to have an insurmountable dominance in this for the foreseeable future, and this will raise American energy prices, because we've been seeing lots of solar implementation because panel prices are extremely cheap now.
I do support the rest of these decisions
Steel and Aluminum are commodities made by many countries, so there are lots of alternative suppliers.
The U.S. doesn't buy many Chinese EV's and Semiconductors at present, but the EV's would be coming soon, and Semiconductors possibly eventually.
While purpose is to create demand for other options. China has a bad history of holding their commercial monopolies hostage.
And the Trump tariffs went to help American farmers
Hey Joe? Using your incredible grasp of economics and that logic of yours, who pays when you tax a corporation then?
Asking for a friend...
The left has no consistency at all. They believe whatever makes their side look good and the other side bad.
Obama ran on meeting with hostile foreign leaders without any preconditions. The left loved him for it.
Trump wants to meet with Kim Jong Un? OMGGGGG you’re legitimizing a hostile foreign regime.
Gas prices go up? The president doesn’t have any ability to lower gas prices.
Gas prices go down? THANK YOU JOE!
Its so much fun to watch the other political subreddits gaslight and pivot in real time on this.
The strategy seems to be to pivot quickly from "all tariffs bad" to "only some tariffs bad" or "What are you talking about we always liked tariffs! But Trump said mean things in twitter about china"
Also fun fact... first direct flight route from China to Mexico since covid started yesterday!
The irony is doing this at this time will cause prices to rise dramatically just before the election.
Hmm. Just like Trump did and you quickly reversed. Are you Now Admitting Trump Was Right Yet Again
Follow Trump's ideas...great campaign strategy 😂
Its election year he needs to try the things that Trump did succesfully and brand it as his. His followers will eat it up and then try to explain how when Biden does it there is value and when Trump did it the world was ending
This will not affect the American people very much, hardly anything uses steel, aluminum, or semi conductors. /s
Let's Go Brandon indeed
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The point was never to make China pay the tariffs, it was to encourage people to buy less of their stuff from China. Seems like maybe Biden doesn't understand the basics?