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Trump Threatens to Slap an Additional 50% Tariff on China

31 points by almog 2y ago

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duxup 2y ago
It's like watching a toddler throw a fit. No idea how to self control, only knows how to scream and act out louder, take it out on everyone else.
java-man 2y ago
Can Congress, in principle, stop this idiocy?
- A_D_E_P_T 2y ago
  In principle, sure. Noah Smith wrote about this earlier today: > "The power to enact tariffs is Constitutionally reserved for Congress, and the only reason Trump is able to unilaterally create these tariffs is that Congress granted the President this ability with a series of laws. At any moment, Congress could simply pass a new law and make these tariffs vanish." > https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/hey-democrats-stop-fiddling-while https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/hey-democrats-stop-fiddling-wh... But that's "in principle." Will they? Almost certainly not. (Though it's unclear why this is the case.)
  - quadragenarian 2y ago
    As mentioned in the article you linked, the president has a veto over any law to restrict his own tariff powers; the only way to override his or her veto is to pass the law with 2/3rds majority in BOTH chambers, the House and Senate. That does mean a fair number of Republican Congresspeople would have to join Democrats. This level of cooperation seems to be in itself anathema to Republicans, notwithstanding the actual principle of the bill itself.
- duxup 2y ago
  Yes, congress has the power to override the executive branch on tariffs. Historically congress has given the executive branch added decision making over tariffs, but congress can revoke those and/or curtail tariffs if they wish. But congress is GOP controlled and they're barely a political party as far as independent thinking goes and more so a Trump fan club in all but name.
- rasz 2y ago
  This congress? no.
lossolo 2y ago
Does anyone know how shadowbanning of submissions works? I submitted a direct source for this 30 minutes ago, and it's not showing up for others (both logged in and logged out) in the new section. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43612672 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43612672
- mytailorisrich 2y ago
  It's dead. People need to have enabled seeing dead submissions ('showdead') to see it.
- r721 2y ago
  It seems truthsocial.com domain is shadowbanned: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=truthsocial.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=truthsocial.com
tempera 2y ago
Why are not the Democrats protesting with all their might against this racial discrimation with tarrifs? The Chinese deserve better from us.

31 points by almog 2y ago

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It's like watching a toddler throw a fit. No idea how to self control, only knows how to scream and act out louder, take it out on everyone else.

java-man 2y ago

Can Congress, in principle, stop this idiocy?

A_D_E_P_T 2y ago
In principle, sure. Noah Smith wrote about this earlier today: > "The power to enact tariffs is Constitutionally reserved for Congress, and the only reason Trump is able to unilaterally create these tariffs is that Congress granted the President this ability with a series of laws. At any moment, Congress could simply pass a new law and make these tariffs vanish." > https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/hey-democrats-stop-fiddling-while https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/hey-democrats-stop-fiddling-wh... But that's "in principle." Will they? Almost certainly not. (Though it's unclear why this is the case.)
- quadragenarian 2y ago
  As mentioned in the article you linked, the president has a veto over any law to restrict his own tariff powers; the only way to override his or her veto is to pass the law with 2/3rds majority in BOTH chambers, the House and Senate. That does mean a fair number of Republican Congresspeople would have to join Democrats. This level of cooperation seems to be in itself anathema to Republicans, notwithstanding the actual principle of the bill itself.
duxup 2y ago
Yes, congress has the power to override the executive branch on tariffs. Historically congress has given the executive branch added decision making over tariffs, but congress can revoke those and/or curtail tariffs if they wish. But congress is GOP controlled and they're barely a political party as far as independent thinking goes and more so a Trump fan club in all but name.
rasz 2y ago
This congress? no.

lossolo 2y ago

Does anyone know how shadowbanning of submissions works? I submitted a direct source for this 30 minutes ago, and it's not showing up for others (both logged in and logged out) in the new section. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43612672 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43612672

mytailorisrich 2y ago
It's dead. People need to have enabled seeing dead submissions ('showdead') to see it.
r721 2y ago
It seems truthsocial.com domain is shadowbanned: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=truthsocial.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=truthsocial.com

tempera 2y ago

Why are not the Democrats protesting with all their might against this racial discrimation with tarrifs? The Chinese deserve better from us.