guys I'm starting to think Trump might be mildly r-slurred

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Bring back textile mills and child labor. Trump loves McKinley so he might as well play his Gilded Age remake well.

We need to tariff Indian call centers next.

You have to dream a little bigger.

200% minimum

Indians better prepare for a call center in Dallas stealing all their grandmas money by pretending to be Microsoft support

that is true, as long as said admin isn't literally fricking r-slurred. when people said that stuff it was under the assumption the country would never elect a literal r-slur into the white house and then congress would let that r-slur destroy the country.

Buying new Nintendo games might be the most cucked hobby

i agree, we'll totally go back to producing t-shirts and cheap shoes, and that will absolutely be superior to our world superpower consumer based economy.

i legit hope you people all choke and die.

We were a war economy, and when we transitioned back to a civilian we realized that people being consumerists meant they valued money more than they did free time, meaning they worked harder and longer, making more stuff, which meant cheaper and better goods (because some of those people weren't just making goods, but also innovating them), increasing consumerism and so on and so forth. This economic cycle encourages innovation in most sectors, including medical, computer, retail, etc. Consumerism encourages people to work with high productivity and work a lot so we don't end up like Euro countries at best or Latin American countries at worst.

Because consumer economies do a better job of innovating in tech.

>weren't we an export economy 100 years ago

Yeah and we were significantly poorer than we are today. South Korea is basically the richest that you can get with an export economy and they are poorer than almost the entire US.

SO MANY OTHER COUNTRIES HAVE THEM AGAINST THE US THEN? I DON'T GET IT

In the case of Brazil just to give an example, tariffs exist solely to keep certain uncompetitive industries afloat at the expense of the consumer and nothing more. The worst part is that it becomes self-enforcing, they don't need to compete so they just keep delivering mediocre products and instead of improving they just lobby to keep tariffs or to place more of them.

Have you considered the possibility that the mean old tariffs that Trumps chart says people impose on the US could be a bunch of black lies pulled out of his ?

Are any of them as rich as the US? They're all poorer than us? Huh that's weird.

Which of those countries has an economy that's outperforming the US? Which ones have a higher standard of living?

Because certain groups of people do a lot of protesting unless you have tarrifs to help them.

Mostly these groups are farmers and some of the more annoying unions.

I work for American companies with American customers from a country whose economy depends on America