DeezerShoove » 18 Aug 2025, 11:12 am » wrote: ↑
Read the OP, you simple ****.
I merely said I don't care if coffee goes up in price.
You know all about money, finance, economics, tariffs.
Why is a tariff on Brazilian goods bad? Please explain the horrors to be visited upon us.
It protects zero jobs, rights zero wrongs, punishes American consumers, alerts the world our tariffs are bullying tactics that are unrelated to trade issues, makes putting your eggs in our basket dangerous and unpredictable, and strengthens the case of those who criticize America as an over-weaning global bully. Tariffing nations on a whim incentivises businesses and industries which have historically lined up to do business with us to develop new markets and new trade relationships.The hobgoblin of global trade and finance is unpredictability. A bit of theater, some high dudgeon threats to bring people into line - these are a tolerable nuisance. But brutal tariffs out of nowhere on nations we have a surplus with at the expense of our own consumers just makes other countries shake their heads. I was HAPPY to pay more to bring American jobs home. I did not sign up for, and will not accept gladly, paying more
without those benefits being achieved from my sacrifice. That's just not what I voted for. These are not the tariffs that I cheered for.
American consumers signed up to pay tariffs that were designed to bring jobs back to the United States from places that rely on slave labor. And we will be paying those tariffs - and that will be a burden. This particular tariff, like the tariffs on Mexico's agriculture, achieves none of the sanguinary benefits of the tariffs we were promised, while still requiring the sacrifices that I voted to make
for good cause.
I have been an advocate of protectionist tariffs since the old board. I have never waivered on that issue - while others posting here were calling me a comnist for taking that principled stand. But the tariffs on Mexico's and Brazil's agriculture do not add a single job to American shores, while they will further inflate the already inflated cost of our groceries.
That's my reason.
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