Saturday, April 05, 2025

Billboard: 'Tariffs Are a Tax'

Black and white billboards that popped up throughout Michigan have a simple message: "Tariffs are a tax." Paid for by the Canadian government, the billboards have been placed on key highways in 12 states and Washington D.C. in response to an escalating trade war with the United States.

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Well, yeah.

Tariffs are a tax on American consumers.


Plain and simple.

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-05 10:17 PM

OK, if I may continue ...

What to Know About Trump's Tariff Authority, Its Cost, and What Comes Next
www.cfr.org

... On April 2, U.S. President Donald Trump announced the most sweeping new tariffs on all imports to the United States in decades. He ordered a baseline 10 percent tariff on all countries and even higher rates on dozens of trading partners, including China and Vietnam, and the European Union. The president also declared a national emergency, granting him special powers to enact the tariffs to "strengthen the international economic position of the United States and protect American workers."

The move spurred reactions from both markets and U.S. trading partners. This resource guide from CFR experts assesses the major issues under debate.

Can Trump Do This? Presidential Authority and the Role of Congress

"The Constitution could not be clearer that regulating foreign commerce rests in the hands of Congress; Trump's use of emergency authorities to set punishing tariffs is an egregious violation of the constitutional separation of powers," CFR expert Edward Alden wrote for Foreign Policy.

"If the United States remains a functioning democracy -- an increasingly big if -- then Trump's actions will not stand. The courts may strike some or all of it down, although the weeks and months these court cases could take would wreak economic havoc in much of the world." ...


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-05 11:28 PM

Who pays for the tariffs?

Simple ...

Those bringing the products into the Country to satisfy their consumers.

The other Countries do not pay the tariffs.

American companies importing the goods pay the tariffs.

So, then the question becomes, do those American importing companies pass on the cost of the tariffs to their customers? Or will they move their production/manufacturing to the US?

That's the huge question.

One view ...

Trump promised a manufacturing boom. Industries aren't so sure.
www.bnnbloomberg.ca

... U.S. President Donald Trump has vowed his historic tariff blitz would revive domestic manufacturing, but industry worries about his approach are raising fresh doubts about whether he can deliver on his promise of an economic boom.

In the Rose Garden on Wednesday, Trump declared "jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country" and predicted new "golden age" in America. Since then, he has stood by his decision to hike U.S. tariffs to their highest levels in more than a century, even as the move sparked a global market meltdown.

Some manufacturing advocates and economists questioned Trump's underlying logic, saying supply chain issues, high costs, workforce needs and the laborious process of moving production to the U.S. stand in the way. Continued uncertainty about Trump's long-term policy could also have a chilling effect, they said.

If the tariffs aren't enough to convince companies to move operations to the U.S., it could mean Americans bear the heavy burden of the economic havoc Trump's announcement unleashed without the promise of future benefits. That could heighten political risks for Trump and his fellow Republicans.

"While we certainly agree we should aggressively pursue any policy that helps us make things in America, the idea that you can move every part of the manufacturing process back to the U.S. does not align with reality," said Kip Eideberg, senior vice president for the Association of Equipment Manufacturers.

Eideberg, whose group represents makers of equipment used in construction, agriculture, mining, utilities and forestry, added that with businesses relying on components and labor from around the world, "you can't just pick all that up and just move it over the U.S." ...



#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-06 01:04 AM

@#3 ... "While we certainly agree we should aggressively pursue any policy that helps us make things in America, the idea that you can move every part of the manufacturing process back to the U.S. does not align with reality," ...

Well, yeah.

What is Pres Trump's plan to move the whole supply chain into US control?


OK, did I say something funny when I asked in the same sentence, "Pres Trump" and "plan?"


#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-06 01:07 AM

did I say something funny when I asked in the same sentence, "Pres Trump" and "plan?"

The correct expression is "Concept of a Plan".

#5 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-04-06 01:19 AM

@#5 ... The correct expression is "Concept of a Plan". ...

Possibly.

Regardless of the attribution, I have to ask, does Pres trump have a plan beyond his short-term tariff assault upon our allies?


One question that pops to mind ..


How does Pres Trump plan to repair the relationship with our long-term allies?

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-06 01:27 AM

NewJohnny5 - Let Go (1986)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

Wow, seems to be too obscure for lyrics.


Oh well ...


#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-06 01:32 AM

How does Pres Trump plan to repair the relationship with our long-term allies?

He doesn't need a plan for that since he has no intention of doing it.

I'd say he thinks he's Charlemagne, but I'm pretty sure he has no idea who that was.

#8 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-04-06 01:38 AM

Duh!

Water is wet!

The Pope is Catholic!

#9 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-04-06 02:17 AM

"Duh! Water is wet! The Pope is Catholic!"

Then why were you silent when Trump was claiming others would pay tariffs???

#10 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-04-06 02:23 AM

Then why were you silent when Trump was claiming others would pay tariffs???

That was (D)ifferent.

#11 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-04-06 02:25 AM

"That was (D)ifferent."

He had (R)easons?

#12 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-04-06 02:27 AM

I'm still looking for his take-down of Trump for the obvious LAWFARE of taking punitive actions against his perceived enemies.

#13 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-04-06 02:29 AM

He had (R)easons?

He might be an (I)diot?

#14 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-04-06 02:40 AM

Duh!

Water is wet!

The Pope is Catholic!

#9 | Posted by BellRinger

Then why did you vote for it?

#15 | Posted by jpw at 2025-04-06 02:43 AM

Tariffs are a tax on companies that want access to our market.

#16 | Posted by THEBULL at 2025-04-06 09:10 AM

Tariffs are a tax on companies that want access to our market.

#16 | Posted by THEBULL

That they pass on to BULL, who is too stupid to know it.

#17 | Posted by Zed at 2025-04-06 09:20 AM

Posted by THEBULL

At some point in your life you will have to think for yourself.

#18 | Posted by Zed at 2025-04-06 09:21 AM

Donald Trump: If the DOW drops 1,000 points in two days the President should be impeached immediately!
11/6/2012

bsky.app

#19 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-04-06 09:21 AM

It dropped 1700. Since it wasn't exactly 1000 MAGA will be OK with it.

finance.yahoo.com

#20 | Posted by mattm at 2025-04-06 11:26 AM

At some point in your life you will have to think for yourself.

#18 | POSTED BY ZED

They will be wandering the earth with hollow empty looks on their blank ashen faces like the undead, lost and wandering the earth aimlessly after the Demon Trumpy is recalled back down to hell.

#21 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-04-06 12:00 PM

you losers have been pissing in your pants for raising corporate taxes

and like it says...." tariffs are a tax.

but now cause...trump....it's the end of the world...

AND you're incensed that people will end up paying for the "increase"

EXACTLY WHAT WE TOLD YOU WOULD HAPPEN....if you got your pre trump wish

it's amazing...grace....just when there was no way I could think "you

people"could ever be worse 2 faced hypocrites....you set a new bar...

#22 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-04-06 01:40 PM

The usual idiots chimed in.

#23 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-04-06 01:53 PM

There you are, right on cue. Idiot

#24 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-04-06 01:54 PM

Then the left should be against raising taxes on corporations because it is the purchasers of their goods and services who are paying those taxes.

#25 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-04-06 02:20 PM

So your solution is to let corporations pay zero in taxes. You're a ------- clueless moron.

#26 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-04-06 02:27 PM

"the left should be against raising taxes on corporations"

Study The Theory of Elasticity, and get back to us.

#27 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-04-06 02:40 PM

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