Sunday, April 20, 2025

Sherrod Brown: Trump's Tariffs Do Nothing for Workers

Sherrod Brown: Tariffs, when used with a clear and consistent strategy, are a necessary part of any economic policy that looks out for workers. But clear and consistent, Donald Trump's tariffs are not. And his domestic economic agenda does next to nothing to help workers.

Posted by retort at 12:32 PM | 13 COMMENTS | permalink

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Instead of ushering in a better economy where workers are the winners, he is pushing costs higher and hurting small businesses, creating uncertainty that will make manufacturers less likely to invest and create jobs here and inflicting more economic pain on the workers who put their faith in him -- all while endorsing a budget that includes a massive tax cut for the wealthiest 5 percent.

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The stupid half of Amerika does not believe this.

#1 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-04-20 12:36 PM

Chinese airlines are sending new 737s back to Boeing because they don't want to buy them anymore.

#2 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-04-20 12:52 PM

The new 737-TAX isn't a big seller?

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-20 12:55 PM

#2: Trumpf really picked a wrong time to agitate the Chinese aviation industry. Please see sixth entry: coriolanus.page

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-20 01:18 PM

The UAW supports the tariffs. I expect Fain will feign shock when the big three use them to increase automation and relocate in the anti union states.

#5 | Posted by northguy3 at 2025-04-20 02:06 PM

The new 737-TAX isn't a big seller?

The MAX was their biggest seller, despite all it's issues.

#6 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-04-20 02:53 PM

... Instead of ushering in a better economy where workers are the winners, he is pushing costs higher and hurting small businesses, creating uncertainty that will make manufacturers less likely to invest and create jobs here ...

Yup.

Uncertainty is the anathema of corporate leaders in their planning process.

How can they make mid- and long-term plans when next month is an unknown?

#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-20 07:32 PM

"Sherrod Brown: Tariffs, when used with a clear and consistent strategy, are a necessary part of any economic policy that looks out for workers.
Posted by retort"

Wow, there is a winning talking about after telling their liberal dipshit minions to run around screaming 'tariffs are TAXES' for the last 3 weeks. I guess this douche finally talked to some union members or looked up some old Nancy Pelosi clips on YouTube.

So, now their message has shifted to "tariffs are bad WHEN TRUMP DOES THEM" - I mean, you can't criticize Chinese tariffs when Biden just did the same thing to Chinese EVs less than a year ago unless your voters base is stupid with the memory of a goldfish - and that is what they tried to do for the last 3 weeks - shows how much they respect their base.

This is the equivalent of Kerry's - "I voted for it before I voted against it moment".

#8 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-04-20 07:48 PM

"Chinese airlines are sending new 737s back to Boeing because they don't want to buy them anymore.
#2 | Posted by REDIAL"

Maybe it was tariffs - maybe it was because no one trusts the DEI designed/manufactured flying shittubes that keep falling from the sky - maybe it is because Chinese air travel is plummets due to their crashing economy.

www.reuters.com

"Annual passenger yields, a proxy for airfares, fell 12.7% at China Southern, and 12.4% at Air China.
Data from China-based Flight Master shows the average domestic economy class fare in 2024 dropped by 12.1% year-on-year to 767 yuan, or about $105, squeezing profit margins.
China accounts for more than 40% of Asia-Pacific's total passenger traffic, according to airline body IATA.
International ticket prices in China were 32% lower in 2024 than in 2023, compared to 12% lower in Asia as a whole, ForwardKeys data shows."

And yes, this article was before the tariffs were announced. As I told you dipshits previously, China's economy was already collapsing - Trump's tariffs is just the final nail in the coffin.

#9 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-04-20 07:53 PM

@#9 ... this article was before the tariffs were announced. ...

Yup.

So why quote it?


#10 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-20 08:17 PM

Boeing jet returns to US from China amid tariff war
www.reuters.com

... A Boeing jet earmarked for China was returning to the United States on Friday, flight tracking data showed, as the planemaker's flagship delivery plant outside Shanghai was drawn into a deepening tariff war between Beijing and Washington.

The return of one of several jets waiting for final work and handover to a Chinese carrier at the completion centre in Zhoushan is the latest sign of disruption to deliveries from a breakdown in the industry's decades-old duty-free status.

In a sign that Boeing was preparing for normal business just weeks before U.S. President Donald Trump announced tariffs on April 2, three new 737 MAX planes had flown from Boeing in Seattle to Zhoushan in March.

Another arrived last week at Zhoushan, where Boeing installs interiors and paints liveries before handing over to customers, according to Flightradar24 data.

But on Friday, one of the first batch of jets took off again without being delivered and flew from Zhoushan to the U.S. territory of Guam - one of the stops such flights make as they cross the Pacific - indicating it was heading back to Seattle.

Boeing declined to comment. ...


#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-20 08:20 PM

"#11 | Posted by LampLighter"

Provide a link stating clearly that the order was cancelled due to tariffs (meaning increased cost AND NOT the airlines knowing passenger demand is going to further crater). Not speculation from a reporter - an official statement from the company

#12 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-04-20 08:28 PM

"So why quote it?
#10 | Posted by LampLighter"

Because it clearly proves my point that the Chinese economy (including airline industry) was already collapsing - this was before tariffs finish off the job.

#13 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-04-20 08:33 PM

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