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That doesn't answer my question: "Why tariff such low margin US goods " that aren't major imports in the EU anyway or major parts of the US economy? Them being

That doesn't answer my question: "Why tariff such low margin US goods " that aren't major imports in the EU anyway or major parts of the US economy? Them being red state products is a weak argument that sees no base of argument or success.

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YetAnotherNick 2y ago
How can you even tariff multinational companies where nothing is transferred between one country to another. Although I think they could tax the company on moving the money out of country. So e.g. whatever money google got from ads from European country can only be spent in Europe else they face heavy tariff.
watwut 2y ago
Republicans do not care about blue states economies and prosperity. They are happy when liberals suffer and would be happy engineering it. They might care if red states economy goes down, because that harms their election chances. Red states voted for this, because they wanted other people to suffer and thought it will bring them prosperity. It makes sense to target that part of america.
disgruntledphd2 2y ago
> Them being red state products is a weak argument that sees no base of argument or success. Because Trump (presumably) listens to Rep Senators/Congresspeople. If he doesn't, then making his voters worse off is a good way to get them to complain. That's the logic anyway, who knows if it'll work.
ben_w 2y ago
Tariffs are bad for anyone who needs to import, which is why the US stock market doesn't like the US having tariffs; the EU doesn't want to raise them either because EU doesn't want to damage the parts of its own economy dependent on imports, it's only raising them at all because it wants to put political pressure on the US to prevent damage to those parts of its economy dependent on exports. By focussing tariffs on only the places that politically support Trump, they get the political impact with the smallest currently-possible negative side-effects.

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YetAnotherNick 2y ago

How can you even tariff multinational companies where nothing is transferred between one country to another. Although I think they could tax the company on moving the money out of country. So e.g. whatever money google got from ads from European country can only be spent in Europe else they face heavy tariff.

watwut 2y ago

Republicans do not care about blue states economies and prosperity. They are happy when liberals suffer and would be happy engineering it. They might care if red states economy goes down, because that harms their election chances. Red states voted for this, because they wanted other people to suffer and thought it will bring them prosperity. It makes sense to target that part of america.

disgruntledphd2 2y ago

> Them being red state products is a weak argument that sees no base of argument or success. Because Trump (presumably) listens to Rep Senators/Congresspeople. If he doesn't, then making his voters worse off is a good way to get them to complain. That's the logic anyway, who knows if it'll work.

ben_w 2y ago

Tariffs are bad for anyone who needs to import, which is why the US stock market doesn't like the US having tariffs; the EU doesn't want to raise them either because EU doesn't want to damage the parts of its own economy dependent on imports, it's only raising them at all because it wants to put political pressure on the US to prevent damage to those parts of its economy dependent on exports. By focussing tariffs on only the places that politically support Trump, they get the political impact with the smallest currently-possible negative side-effects.