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Originally Posted by Hackslack
I dunno man… if you’re voting for a guy who said he guarantees he will artificially increase the prices of things like steel, in the midst of a trade war with our closest trading partner. That kind of policy on one’s own country is almost as ridiculous as implementing a 25% tariff on your closest trading partners, pretty stupid… sounds like a carney is making his bed with the American folk with that kind of leadership.. the beauty about democracy, you can still vote for the guy who wants to further economic hardship of upstream industry!
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Your assuming the US is the only supplier of stuff. The objective of retaliatory tariffs is to go after products that can easily be substituted from other countries.
So we are going to get steel domestically, form Brazil or China.