Trump says he will introduce 25% tariffs on autos, pharmaceuticals and chips.
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You asked for evidence of legal immigrants being deported. I gave you evidence of AMERICAN CITIZENS being deported.
You: Moved the goalposts.
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I asked for evidence that was supposed to back up your claim of "you don't have enough people left to to create local production." It did not. A handful of people (who are not engineers) being deported accidentally is not going to impact the ability to create local production.
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I'm responding to this
You need to learn to read usernames. I've made no claims
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Well then you were responding to my request to back up their claims, doesn't matter.
Also the screenshots are unnecessary, I can scroll up and read my own comments just fine, thank you.
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The factory decision is exactly the calculation that will go through hundreds of MBA-educated business leaders.
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And America is taking everyone with them.
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Tariffs are a net negative. Always. The things produced will not be competitive on the global market, if they were, we'd already be making them. The higher prices always destroy more jobs than they create. Retaliatory tariffs destroy even more jobs. The higher prices drive down demand and make the working class consumer poorer. Always.
There's no economic upside to tariffs, over any time horizon. They create a small number of jobs in a specific sector at a very expensive cost. Some politicians might decide that the enormous economic cost is worth it for other reasons, but a net positive they are not.
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[citation needed]
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Ok good stuff. Screenshots are unnecessary, but if you were any good at scrolling up, you would have known who you were responding to. Screenshot for reference
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Okay, enough trolling, you're being blocked now, goodbye.
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I think you're overstating how effective the DoEd is at coordinating curriculum, as well as how effective state governments are at the same.
I'm in a red state (Utah), and we're pretty competitive in terms of scholastic attainment (top 15 in most metrics), above many blue states that spend way more on education. Higher spending does not seem correlated with higher achievement. Also, from non-rigorous comparison of some state lists of academic achievement (like this wiki page), I don't see a clear relationship between how states vote and academic performance that can't more convincingly be explained by rural vs urban/suburban demographics.
So while it's a popular talking point, I'm not convinced the DoEd is actually helping here. Schools will do better in areas with more parental engagement, and curriculum choice, funding, and rigor in testing don't seem have much of an impact. We're spending more than ever, have strict education standards, etc, yet test scores continue to drop across the country.
So no, I don't think the DoEd is effective, and in fact I think they're largely to blame for tuition outpacing inflation, because student loans are easier to get, so sold m schools can get away with raising prices.
What we should have are laws that states must maintain a secular education, and if religion is taught, all major religions are given equal treatment. That, and that states must provide a free K-12 education for all residents, and that public universities must be affordable for all residents who qualify (with grants as appropriate). That's it, no common standard, no loans, etc. Education is better handled locally.
That said, I don't trust Trump or Musk to handle this properly.
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Wikipedia has a whole list of citations on this very sentence lol.
There is near unanimous consensus among economists that tariffs are self-defeating and have a negative effect on economic growth and economic welfare
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Oh well, you have a single sentence from a Wikipedia article, I guess I was wrong!
The citations are all concerning the concept of "free trade" which is an incredibly generic phrase.
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That 25% magic number
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BIC is a French surfboard manufacturer?
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Pretty sure they had BIC windsurf boards in Canada when I was a kid.
Edit: Shit, they still do too, as of 2008.
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Bic lighters are made in France. 25% is peanuts to them, they get much higher tariffs in south america.
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Fascinating
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Yet he supports oil.. Which accounts for a sizeable share of international shipping. This is while the US doesn't have enough refining capacity for the type of oil we produce.
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To wit, you can send a message by adding a "Trump Tariff Tax" instead of changing your base price, just to clearly articulate to the simpletons that thought this would lower costs
