What if we dont buy much of anything foreign? I buy beef from America, bourbon from Kentucky, wine from Cali and Oregon, gas from circle k, shrimp from the shrimp boat in my town etc. I do buy avocados from costco but have not seen the prices go up on them.J.R. said:
just stupid and foolish. All you Trumpians want prices to increase. It is painfully simple. Tariffs are a tax on the consumer, period. Yall can rationalize any way you want. Bad for Mercans. He will blink again. He's getting a ton of heat.
First, don't call me stupid. I am a Baylor grad. Next, don't think for me. Nobody wants prices to increase.J.R. said:
just stupid and foolish. All you Trumpians want prices to increase. It is painfully simple. Tariffs are a tax on the consumer, period. Yall can rationalize any way you want. Bad for Mercans. He will blink again. He's getting a ton of heat.
If you were POTUS, what would be your plan to get prices down?J.R. said:
just stupid and foolish. All you Trumpians want prices to increase. It is painfully simple. Tariffs are a tax on the consumer, period. Yall can rationalize any way you want. Bad for Mercans. He will blink again. He's getting a ton of heat.
Doc Holliday said:If you were POTUS, what would be your plan to get prices down?J.R. said:
just stupid and foolish. All you Trumpians want prices to increase. It is painfully simple. Tariffs are a tax on the consumer, period. Yall can rationalize any way you want. Bad for Mercans. He will blink again. He's getting a ton of heat.
Free trade. Every country can produce what they are good at. Why should I be forced to buy a more expensive and inferior product to support an inferior business model? Other countries can produce some things cheaper and better because they are not weighed down by unions. Why should American companies improve their wares when they know Americans will be forced to buy them? Competition is a good thing. So is freedom. If you want to buy American than by all means buy only American products. The best lumber for housing comes from Canada. The colder the climate the harder the wood. Today we are building houses with American wood. They will last half as long as houses built with Canadian wood. Right now America has a 14.5% tariff on Canadian wood. Trump wants to add another 25% tariff. So houses will be built with softer shorter lasting American wood. We are shooting ourselves in the foot. Competition and freedom. If you cant grow lettuce as cheap and good as Mexico grow something else. Stop asking for tariffs to make your inferior product competitive. Freedom. America used to be one of highest ranked free countries in the world. We are now tied at 17th place for freedom of countries around the world. Economic freedom ranking is 26th in the world. And yall are crying for tighter restrictions and higher taxes.Doc Holliday said:If you were POTUS, what would be your plan to get prices down?J.R. said:
just stupid and foolish. All you Trumpians want prices to increase. It is painfully simple. Tariffs are a tax on the consumer, period. Yall can rationalize any way you want. Bad for Mercans. He will blink again. He's getting a ton of heat.
Limited IQ Redneck in PU said:Free trade. Every country can produce what they are good at. Why should I be forced to buy a more expensive and inferior product to support an inferior business model? Other countries can produce some things cheaper and better because they are not weighed down by unions. Why should American companies improve their wares when they know Americans will be forced to buy them? Competition is a good thing. So is freedom. If you want to buy American than by all means buy only American products. The best lumber for housing comes from Canada. The colder the climate the harder the wood. Today we are building houses with American wood. They will last half as long as houses built with Canadian wood. Right now America has a 14.5% tariff on Canadian wood. Trump wants to add another 25% tariff. So houses will be built with softer shorter lasting American wood. We are shooting ourselves in the foot. Competition and freedom. If you cant grow lettuce as cheap and good as Mexico grow something else. Stop asking for tariffs to make your inferior product competitive. Freedom. America used to be one of highest ranked free countries in the world. We are now tied at 17th place for freedom of countries around the world. Economic freedom ranking is 26th in the world. And yall are crying for tighter restrictions and higher taxes.Doc Holliday said:If you were POTUS, what would be your plan to get prices down?J.R. said:
just stupid and foolish. All you Trumpians want prices to increase. It is painfully simple. Tariffs are a tax on the consumer, period. Yall can rationalize any way you want. Bad for Mercans. He will blink again. He's getting a ton of heat.
Limited IQ Redneck in PU said:
You cant tell other countries what to charge. Scott, if the store down the road tries to sell you an inferior or too expensive product dont you just go somewhere else? Freedom is a wonderful thing. If you want to pay thousands of dollars extra for an American car then do it!! We cant control other countries but the market can.
Did you ever look up the Smoot Howley tariff that plunged us into the Great Depression?
Limited IQ Redneck in PU said:
Freedom. Why dont you just pay .70 cents extra to make up for the people that only care for themselves.
PS. The current tariff on cars coming into America is around 3000.Limited IQ Redneck in PU said:
Freedom. Why dont you just pay .70 cents extra to make up for the people that only care for themselves.
What countries that import goods to the US use "slave labor"?TinFoilHatPreacherBear said:
I'm good with incentives that drive production to the US.
I'm good with tariffs that are avoidable and/or reciprocal.
Free trade rarely exists. All the usual gripers know this. But they've been programmed since birth to accept the globalists agenda.
Last, we have standards that other countries don't. American workers shouldnt have to compete against slave labor. These other countries need to be similarly minded to have "free trade" access to our marke
I'd be all for it if all products were local and available which they aren't . I'm a big locolvoire. Loves me a great farmers market in the summer, but they are dissapearing, at least in Dallas. Used to love going every weekend and getting my Lemley tomatoes, Freestone peaches ect. I get local meat from my cows and goats. Never buy farmed raised fish of any kind. Shrimp from Vietnam? No thanks. Prefer seasonal seafood from the gulf of merca. Local cheese ect.muddybrazos said:What if we dont buy much of anything foreign? I buy beef from America, bourbon from Kentucky, wine from Cali and Oregon, gas from circle k, shrimp from the shrimp boat in my town etc. I do buy avocados from costco but have not seen the prices go up on them.J.R. said:
just stupid and foolish. All you Trumpians want prices to increase. It is painfully simple. Tariffs are a tax on the consumer, period. Yall can rationalize any way you want. Bad for Mercans. He will blink again. He's getting a ton of heat.
Also, what if all this tariff stuf is just a bluff from Trump to get a conession before the tariffs take effect?
get the budget under control and stop with a Trillion in interest. It is simply supply and demand. Fortunately, I didn't make outlandish claims relative to that as that isn't my area of expertise.Doc Holliday said:If you were POTUS, what would be your plan to get prices down?J.R. said:
just stupid and foolish. All you Trumpians want prices to increase. It is painfully simple. Tariffs are a tax on the consumer, period. Yall can rationalize any way you want. Bad for Mercans. He will blink again. He's getting a ton of heat.
ScottS said:Limited IQ Redneck in PU said:
You cant tell other countries what to charge. Scott, if the store down the road tries to sell you an inferior or too expensive product dont you just go somewhere else? Freedom is a wonderful thing. If you want to pay thousands of dollars extra for an American car then do it!! We cant control other countries but the market can.
Did you ever look up the Smoot Howley tariff that plunged us into the Great Depression?
But you are the free trade person. How do you get to free trade when they aren't engaging in free trade? Trump is adding the reciprocal part to get them to remove theirs.
Not sure who your God is. If it is the God of Christianity, there is little evidence you follow him or listen to what he says, based on your many years of posting history. Who knows, maybe you've made your God up?Limited IQ Redneck in PU said:
I don't think my God sees a working American any different than a working Canadian or a working Mexican. Just my thoughts. Maybe your God does. I grew up in a Baptist church. Maybe Catholics teach differently
Limited IQ Redneck in PU said:
And if he loved Texans He would have intervened at the Alamo.
"I never thought" lol. We know.Limited IQ Redneck in PU said:
Do you think God cares much about Americans, or Mexicans, or Canadians? I never thought He cared much about different races or nationalities.
Sometimes I question the way some humans treat other humans.
John Bolton: Our greatest fear is that Trump could bring peace. https://t.co/TcmUhpWETy
— RAMZPAUL (@ramzpaul) March 15, 2025
KaiBear said:
If tariffs are bad; other countries wouldn't be employing them against the United States.
Time to give them a taste of what they have been doing to us for decades.
Reagan was a dumbass.whiterock said:KaiBear said:
If tariffs are bad; other countries wouldn't be employing them against the United States.
Time to give them a taste of what they have been doing to us for decades.
Bingo. Only a dumbass would disagree with you on this.
Reagan was an actor.Limited IQ Redneck in PU said:Reagan was a dumbass.whiterock said:KaiBear said:
If tariffs are bad; other countries wouldn't be employing them against the United States.
Time to give them a taste of what they have been doing to us for decades.
Bingo. Only a dumbass would disagree with you on this.
If you paid attention to your history, you would know that every single native Texan that died at the Alamo was Hispanic. Guess God hates Catholics?Limited IQ Redneck in PU said:
And if he loved Texans He would have intervened at the Alamo.
