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20. "And now how many new people will get laid off to compensate?"
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At car manufacturers + dealerships, as they're more expensive to make, more expensive to buy, and harder to sell?
Home appliances?
Construction?
Manufacturing?
Food and food service?
Electronics?

And then we get to the retaliatory tariffs, that will make it harder to sell US goods overseas (making the trade deficit even worse, BTW). Even our closest allies (the EU specifically), have already started planning those out.

If you save 1,000 jobs, and in the process you destroy 20,000 other jobs, that is not good news for the American worker.


As to the grocery store analogy, that was just to explain that the trade deficit is not the issue, it's a way to obfuscate the issue and pretend you're being more quantitative than you actually are. If your concern is jobs, just say your concern is jobs. Then we can be concerned about the same thing. But tariffs do not save jobs. If your concern is US steel jobs, specifically, then yes, tariffs will help with that, and a lot of other Americans will pay the price.

  

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Welcome to Trump's Trade War. Attempts to rebirth US Steel. [View all] , Case_One, Thu Mar-08-18 04:07 PM
 
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Mar 08th 2018
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YT base still gon cream themselves over "Americans first"
Mar 08th 2018
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Jo Schmo is about to have a future brought to him by the letter L
Mar 08th 2018
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      lmao
Mar 09th 2018
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Jeff Flake threatens bill to nullify Trump's tariffs
Mar 08th 2018
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Apparently people don’t understand that there is a trade deficit...
Mar 08th 2018
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Even more people don't understand trade deficits aren't necessarily bad.
Mar 08th 2018
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RE: Even more people don't understand trade deficits aren't necessarily ...
Mar 08th 2018
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      I still don't think you get how this works.
Mar 08th 2018
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           Great analogy
Mar 08th 2018
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           I think that it is you that doesn’t get it.
Mar 09th 2018
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                     thank you for this analogy
Mar 09th 2018
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                     I don’t know where you reside but...
Mar 09th 2018
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                          I live near Cleveland.
Mar 09th 2018
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lol this is the same level analysis our president uses.
Mar 08th 2018
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These niggas really do take Atlas Shrugged for truth.
Mar 08th 2018
10
YEP! They do!
Mar 08th 2018
12
The man is a complete moron
Mar 08th 2018
11
Trump Administration Admits Trump’s $1 Billion Demand From China Was S...
Mar 08th 2018
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      Dr. Evil ass mofo
Mar 09th 2018
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"COOOOAAAL?!" (c) Dave Chappelle
Mar 09th 2018
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chump bff sold $30M in steel-related stock before tariffs announcement
Mar 09th 2018
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