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Locut0s

(6,154 posts) Thu Mar 1, 2018, 04:40 PM Mar 2018

Trump's tariffs are going to mostly hurt the US...

Isolationist Trump announced steep tariffs on steel and aluminum imports at 25 and 10%. Trump and his supporters don't realize it's no longer the 1950s. The US isn't the centre of the world anymore these are going to hurt the US more than help as business will simply go elsewhere.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43249614

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Trump's tariffs are going to mostly hurt the US... (Original Post) Locut0s Mar 2018 OP

Steering the BEST course for the Titanic. Girard442 Mar 2018 #1

this man has zero thought process. spanone Mar 2018 #2

He wasn't much of an isolationist before he stole the election - anyone remember this: fleur-de-lisa Mar 2018 #3

Girard442

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1. Steering the BEST course for the Titanic.

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Thu Mar 1, 2018, 04:44 PM

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spanone

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2. this man has zero thought process.

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Thu Mar 1, 2018, 04:44 PM

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fleur-de-lisa

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3. He wasn't much of an isolationist before he stole the election - anyone remember this:

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Thu Mar 1, 2018, 04:45 PM

Mar 2018

Donald Trump Uses Foreign Steel in His Buildings - October 6, 2016

https://www.cwa-union.org/news/donald-trump-uses-foreign-steel-in-his-buildings

Donald Trump doesn't build with steel or aluminum produced by U.S. workers. Instead, he spends millions of dollars on building supplies in China.

A Newsweek investigation revealed that "[Donald] Trump has been stiffing American steel workers on his own construction projects for years, choosing to deprive untold millions of dollars from four key electoral swing states and instead directing it to China – the country whose trade practices have helped decimate the once-powerful industrial center of the United States."

The report found that in at least two of Trump's last three construction projects – his Las Vegas hotel and his hotel in Chicago – Trump opted to purchase his steel and aluminum from Chinese manufacturers rather than U.S. corporations based in states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin. It concludes that Trump "is not someone who ever attempted to lead by example by only buying products made in America."

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