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Bluetus

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31. The most basic question: what we tariffs supposed to accomplish?

Fri Feb 20, 2026, 06:12 PM

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Ostensibly Trump was going to use them to force manufacturing jobs to come back to the USA.

We know what actually happened. Trump used these as extortion to get special deals to enrich himself. How many times did Trump announce huge tariffs on a single country or region, then quietly drop them a week or two later? You can be certain that nearly every such instance corresponded with a donation to the inaugural fund, the ballroom fund, the Trump golden shoes fund, the Trump crypto coin fund, a Trump PAC or whatever. It was all about extortion, that is obvious.

But the question is what good an across-the-board tariff of 10% accomplishes. It doesn't provide any real incentive for anybody to do anything. Nobody is going to relocate a major manufacturing operation for 10%. And if he is applying it equally to all countries, then that limits the extortion leverage.

Bottom line, this looks like simply a face saving ploy. It doesn't matter. Our jobs now is to force Trump to refund all those tariffs to individuals

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Um... how does that work? The executive branch will have to pay 10% more for supplies it gets via imports? ck4829 17 hrs ago #1

Really? UpInArms 17 hrs ago #2

thats something he legally can do moonshinegnomie 17 hrs ago #3

He's gone insane, remove Blues Heron 17 hrs ago #4

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I'd say it's a solid F U SCOTUS. flashman13 15 hrs ago #21

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Translation: Ray Bruns 16 hrs ago #8

The most basic question: what we tariffs supposed to accomplish? Bluetus 13 hrs ago #31

He's such a spoiled child sakabatou 16 hrs ago #9

And we're paying for his tantrums. StarryNite 15 hrs ago #14

Legal basis? We don't need no stinking legal basis!! moniss 16 hrs ago #10

I read your words, and you laid out a perfect picture of bluestarone 16 hrs ago #12

We have the right to do what we want to do. choie 16 hrs ago #11

"We" being "me, myself and I" in the fat asses case! KPN 15 hrs ago #17

Will the spineless republican shitbirds in congress and the senate FINALLY do something? NoMoreRepugs 15 hrs ago #13

They'll kneel down and pucker up some more durablend 15 hrs ago #15

Why doesn't he just fucking die? Orrex 15 hrs ago #16

CBS showed the babbling fool. Olympics on NBC. Watch people go downhill one at a time rather than the twodogsbarking 15 hrs ago #20

He's just declared himself king. Next up: God. Grokenstein 15 hrs ago #23

With no policing entity willing to step up, why would he heed the court's admonition? Magoo48 15 hrs ago #24

Does his new tariff include Penguin Island? Hassler 14 hrs ago #25

Hasn't anyone figured how to make them a tax deduction? /nt bucolic_frolic 14 hrs ago #26

So now we've reached the point where he is Figarosmom 14 hrs ago #27

149 days left of this BS also........he does any and everything to circumvent the rule of law and the adjoining turbinetree 14 hrs ago #28

The legal ground to use this act to impose such broad tariffs like this, is D. Spaulding 14 hrs ago #30

Thank you for this rational, informative reply. KY_EnviroGuy 9 hrs ago #33