• Jesus@lemmy.world
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    We are going to cost your countries, your economies, we’re going to cost your businesses billions, hundreds of billions of dollars if you think you’re going to poison Americans

    They realize American manufacturers and consumers pay the tariffs, right? Not the other countries.

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      I don’t think they do. But daddy donvict seems to also think that China is somehow ripping us off because “trade deficit”.

      So I don’t think anyone in this crime family understands much of anything at all.

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      Plus it’s not like companies can turn things on a dime and create new facilities/train new people in response to these.

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        And who are they going to employ to do all this new work in America, with trump deporting the most capable labour pool ?

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          Either lots of high cost of living Americans or just a handful of them for maintenance on the robots doing the needed functions.