$6 Trillion Import Tax Hike on April 2nd

free trade is "lopsided" in favor of the USA, the biggest consumer in the world. autarky destroys empires.
his idea of "trying something new" is increasing the baseline cost of all goods you consume and destroying employment. all he had to do was lower restrictions on energy production and *increase* spending, not completely shut spending down. The US has been slowly strangled by monetary tightening, Trump is now accelerating that strangulation into full death. It is legitimately over if this continues.

Then destroy the bureaucratic nanny state strangling American industry. Don't tax food when food is expensive.

destroying employment

How is he destroying employment? You mean the thousands of unneeded government jobs? Those workers would be better off doing something that is actually productive for society. He's trying to create an environment for American businesses to succeed. Things are not working the way they are right now. I'm open to seeing where this takes us.

And guess what? the national debt won't be paid off by even one cent KEKAROO
It all goes into their jew pockets.

It's very interesting how reluctant people are to rock the boat despite the system quite literally falling apart in real time.

If some country wants to trade up cars, machine tools, metals, and whatever else for numbers in their reserve account at the Fed, we should probably let them.

Just to add, I invite people to go to semi rural suburbs maybe 45 minutes-1hour out of major cities.

People are struggling. The people who cut your hair, fix your car, all these simple professions that keep society running can't afford to survive without a significant decrease in QoL.

People are okay with living in smaller houses and having less spectacular lives than those with wealth. Not everyone went to Disney 30 years ago either.

Family of four and I was raised comfortably on my dad's military salary in a decent little suburb. Mom stayed home. This requires both parents working now. It's just nuts to watch all this shit crumble.

The solution to this is UBI, but conservatives aren't willing to go there.

The only reason USA could have stay at home moms was because of the world wars. In europe both parents had to work even in the boomer era.

No, giving people money isn't the solution either as people will spend it on stupid shit.
Groceries weren't bought with stimulus checks.
Disagree, pretty common for one parent to stay home while dad made the bread. Again, you didn't have a glamorous life because of it but you could easily survive.

How is he destroying employment?

Are you not aware that layoffs are happening left and right? That will accelerate unless Trump pulls back from the abyss.

> He's trying to create an environment for American businesses to succeed.

So far he's done everything in his power to do the opposite. Higher baseline costs, reduced spending, massive uncertainty, massive loss in trust - how is any of this good for business? The nebulous idea that we will rebuild the entirety of the global supply chain within our own borders? It's absurd.
Yeah, and they're going to do a whole lot worse when all of their costs balloon, there are no jobs whatosever, and the government just tells them they deserve to be poor.

The available data suggests that roughly 60% of the stimulus check money went into savings or debt repayment.

They are ideologically motivated to believe government spending is bad. And they don't admit it publicly, but they view unemployment as a good tool for controlling inflation.

People are being laid off because we're going into a recession. This recession was coming whether Trump was here or not. Doing a total overhaul Americas economic policy is going to come with some pain. He needs to push this policy through before the mid-term elections, that why he's going into overdrive to get it done.

BEAR!

KING!!

TRUMP!!!

must be some kind of jew larp nigger

The US is becoming a low-trust society. Nobody has a good idea what this looks like for a modern anglo-type civilization but it will be interesting

tax just mean more gibtameat and inflation
btc to 1M nigger

Its not good for current bag holders, but fuck em.

You are retarded, and gay

What total bullshit LOL do you have common sense?

Yes, and it's glorious

Poor retards get their tax return and go on a spending spree

Poor retards win the lottery and blow it all on stupid toys in a few years

But dude they totally spent the free money they got in the mail in 2020 responsibly and they would do the same with UBI!

You have to be an unironic shill there's just no way someone could be this clueless

It's very interesting how reluctant people are to rock the boat

People are struggling

Answered your own question there. People are holding on for dear life already, they are just hoping that if they keep their head down, things will go back to normal soon.

Ngl good job. If crypto goes up in some miracleous way, I win. If it doesn't and USA shits the bed, I'm fine too. Keep winning champ

In the long term it should be a good thing for the US

goes into depression in the 2030s

roaring 2040s when you're in your 40s

W-we sure showed them r-right babe?

I'll be 51 in 2040

One man's stupid shit is another man's GDP.

cleans artificial lawn with roomba

sips gamer fuel

hits vape

Fr fr no cap

People are being laid off because we're going into a recession. The recession was coming whether Trump was here or not.

So why is he trying to make it worse? The last time we implemented widespread tariffs during high unemployment and a bad economy was almost 100 years ago and exacerbated the Great Depression. And that's when we actually were a primarily manufacturing economy with a mostly domestic supply chain.

Doing a total overhaul of America's economic policy is going to come with some pain

He already tried the same thing in his first term and all we got was pain. More manufacturing jobs were lost than gained, farmers had to be bailed out, and "investments" from companies like Foxconn never materialized. What makes this time around any different other than him being more unhinged?

He needs to push this policy through before the mid-term elections.

Why? So it can get overturned by a Democratic supermajority? People aren't going to forget Trump making an inevitable recession even worse when he campaigned on the opposite, especially depending on how long this "short-term pain" is supposed to last. "Trust the process" isn't exactly a great campaign message when your constituents lose everything. Dems and RINOs are going to sweep the 2026 midterms now that people see what Trump with no guardrails looks like.

That's why he's going into overdrive to get it done

Then why is he constantly delaying and changing things? The point of the tariffs and where they'll be implemented is always different depending on who in the administration you ask, and at what time. If he had a plan, he'd stick to it and implement it, but he can't even do that.

He and his cabinet seem to have a plan in place that is unclear to the public. Maybe it's deliberate. Idk. What I do know is the Democrats would have just kept kicking the can. I'm happy with how it's going. At least they aren't trying to stop the recession from happening. We need asset prices to fall.

Think of the buying opportunities. I really doubt it would be that long. We'll bottom out next year, then the FED will cut interest rates and start QE. Trump even suggested removing income tax for anyone earning less than $150,000. That alone will be amazing. No tax on income and no tax on crypto. Imagine that.

the problem isn't so much the measures he's taking, but the erratic way in which he's doing it.

the problem isn't so much the measures he's taking, but the erratic way in which he's doing it.

yep, he's proven to be a lunatic who changes his mind every 5 seconds. the markets do not like that.

also, he started threatening russia again.. guess with what? yep, tariffs. Seems to be his tool of choice from now on.

mutts, can you start trying to assassinate him again? cia/fbi/mossad? anyone?

Yea, I don't disagree with that. But there could be a reason for it that we just don't know yet. It's only been a couple of months since he started and we haven't seen how the tariffs will actually change things yet. Everyone is screaming the end is near and we don't even know how it's going to play out.

How would that help anything? Then JD would be president. Don't you demfaggots hate that guy more than Trump? You don't think about anything.

Housing in the US is piss cheap

demfaggots

I am not a demfaggot retard, I was pro Trump until he crashed my portfolio by 60% in 2 months

yep, he's proven to be a lunatic who changes his mind every 5 seconds.

its intentional, you idiot

its intentional, you idiot

yeah, walking back on your word surely will make people trust you more and start making deals with you

no deals, only payment

>gets hated on non stop for trying to fix things

The thing is if you read history, all the roman emperors like Majorian and Aurelian who were like "okay faggots, no more tax breaks for tax dodgers we need to save the empire" usually got attacked by cuck faggots like the one you're talking to.

When an empire is in decline it's usually because a large percentage of the population are either leeches or profiting from the decline.

You're not entitled to a job funded by taxpayers, you fucking leech.

You weren't pro-anything, you're not an american you're just a foreign leech that needs to get a nuke shoved up your ass.

Government spending is bad you fucking retard, it's the primary cause of inflation. You are not owed a government job at everyone else's expense you entitled fucking leech.

I have no idea what they're trying to do, but I trust the process

People are going to get tired of this mentality the longer nothing improves. Other countries won't come to the bargaining table because Trump can't act in good faith, even on his own deals. Companies won't reshore anything because they know the tariffs will be gone the second someone sane takes Trump's place. The best case scenario is Trump eventually pussies out on tariffs while making up some excuse to spin it as a win.

How exactly is free trade lopsided in favor of the US when manufacturing and factory jobs have been leaving the country since the 70's because it's cheaper for spics and chinks to assemble widgets in China and Mexico?

I agree. The private sector is always more efficient than the public sector. The public sector has no indencitive to make profit and will therefore become inefficient and lazy by default. The smaller the government is, the better. Thank you Elon Musk for crippling the government in any way possible.