US tariffs on Chinese goods will cost between $300 to $1,000 per household

[wiyosaya]

China does allow outside companies to sell directly to the Chinese People. If they did, then there would not be an issue and everything would be fair. Perhaps you are the clueless one and doesn't understand what a communist nation is..?

Trump is treating china correctly, a Country who has been stealing it's wealth for 20 years and will die soon if it doesn't play nice with the rest of the world. Because US sanctions are nothing when China has World sanctions and blackades...

No one has been stealing it. The US, and its companies, have been giving it away in that all glorious pursuit of profit.

So tell me, where are the world sanctions and "blackades"? Links?

You mean like lowering the minimum wage and reducing benefits?

I think a lot of people simply fail to see the problem: US workers are expensive, Chinese workers are cheap. That's the problem. You can make US workers less expensive (unpopular because that reduces the standard of living), or you can raise the cost of goods from outside the US to compensate for the cheaper labor (unpopular because people love to use military words to describe economic decisions and toss around the phrase "global economy" as if they understand it).

It's basically a no-win scenario. No matter what you do, you make people angry because they don't understand that yes, absolutely, there will always be a trade-off for moving jobs to the USA. Either a reduced standard of living or more expensive goods. Personally, I am fine with more expensive goods so I don't mind a bit of a "trade war." We already tax income and sales and plenty of other things, why not tax imports? Why must that be the one thing we avoid taxing at all costs? It makes no sense.

Goods aren't supposed to be this cheap to begin with - not if we actually want to apply the same standard of living globally. And if we're unwilling to apply the same standard of living globally, that begs the question of why we're willing to accept different standards for the USA and the rest of the world.

The cost of cheap goods - is lowered standards of living in places where we get the goods from. The cost of cheap goods - is inequality. That is, unless you're willing to accept the idea of a lowered standard of living in the USA to about Chinese levels.

It's funny that so many people are fired up about fixing inequality in the USA, but when it comes to the rest of the world - nobody cares. It's important here, but not there. All in the name of keeping goods cheap, we sweep inconvenient truths under the rug.

I agree its a no-win situation and that is why I said feckless leader is playing wack-a-mole.

The real problem is that money has become God.

 

[Evernessince]

Yes, I know about reality, because I lived it and watched all of out manufacturing job go over to China, because out Government was corrupt and selling out Americans. Now that we have a strong Global Leader he is making sure Americans are not being taking advantage of, or being sold on down the line.

The reality if "a lot of every days good are made in china" is they don't have to be. Those jobs will move back to the US, or Countries like India will love those Factories. Americans don't have to buy any good from China, ever. That is China's mistake here, they think they own the world and NOPE everyone can just up & move out and let china make plastic trinkets for themselves.

Again, I am sure some of the cotton-candy types from Kaliformia will complain loudly about having to buy American, but over time they will get over it, and their children will be better for it.


Nobody cares if you have to pay $14 more for a keyboard, mouse, motherboard, etc.. because it wasn't made in China. I would gladly pay more, not to have any Communist products ion my household...

I wouldn't mind paying more for America at all. The problem that I was pointing out is that there aren't many American products on the market and no one is taking steps to address that.

Right now all the tariffs are doing is increasing the prices of Chinese goods compared to non-existent American product. Before any trade war was started American entrepreneurs should have been incentivized to startup new factories so that Americans can actually replace Chinese goods with American. This is like going into battle and forgetting your sword.

 

[Jeff Murray]

The only people against the tariffs are the Liberals, because they hate Trump so much they would rather see the country fail, and the same clowns who caused the crash/recession of 2007. They are the only ones crying wolf.
This yellow journalism piece belongs on FakeNewsNetwork or BSNBC.

 

[Evernessince]

The only people against the tariffs are the Liberals, because they hate Trump so much they would rather see the country fail, and the same clowns who caused the crash/recession of 2007. They are the only ones crying wolf.
This yellow journalism piece belongs on FakeNewsNetwork or BSNBC.

lol, yes it was the democrats in 2007 despite the house being evenly divided and the president being republican. Obama inherited the recession and still came out ahead.

People aren't against a trade war, people are against the way it's being done. We went into a trade war to bring manufacturing back to the US with no plans to build more factories and Trump asked for zero help from our allies. Imagine if trump had actually allocated funds to build factories first or *gasp* ask our friends to join us. Please, the man in completely incompetent. No, instead he's busy taking credit for deals signed during Obama's presidency and paying out public funds to factories that end up closing, all the while the greater economy keeps slipping into a deeper plutocracy.