It’s been a while since America was involved in a good old fashioned trade war. When waged properly, they can work wonders. Democrats are aghast that President Donald Trump is about to make them look bad by doing what they never would have dreamed of doing. Since he’s the one doing it, the media is required to report all the gloom and doom scenarios which sort of might happen, as long as they hit voters in the pocketbook. Actually balancing the balance of export economics is going to expose how useless the left really is.
More balanced trade
President Donald Trump isn’t easing up the trade pressure against China just because they’re adding more tariffs of their own. That’s exactly what he was hoping they would do.
Laying stiff export taxes on our northern and southern neighbors already has them scurrying to rethink their economic strategy.
All the way along the Central American coast, the Banana Republic nations are falling over themselves trying to placate the Gringo Loco. The panic flows on down to South America where Colombia nearly lost their coffee trade.
Trump’s immigration and border security policies have already forced them to start trying to peddle cocaine on the open market. When Marco Rubio recently visited the Dominican Republic, he confiscated the Venezuelan president’s personal jet. Trump is serious.
On Thursday, February 13, President Trump “doubled down on his extraordinary push for more balanced trade.” He’s been grinning and chuckling the phrase “reciprocal tariffs” all day. He tasked his staff with finding any “that could boost America’s revenue.”
Democrats say those taxes will really be paid by the U.S. taxpayer. Technically, they’re right. In typical progressive weasel style that twists things around to spin them in a leftward direction. They miss the part that whoever’s on the other side of one is under even stronger pressure to get them removed. By coming to diplomatic arrangements that have more suitable terms.
Six weeks to decide
Trump is holding massive tariffs over the heads of world leaders like a sword of Damocles. It’s dangling up there looking all sharp and pointy but won’t fall for six weeks. The president announced a firm deadline for world leaders to play let’s make a trade deal, just to show them he’s not fooling.
“Howard Lutnick, Trump’s Commerce Secretary nominee, said he anticipates the investigation will be complete by April 1. It is then up to Trump to decide, as of April 2, when to enact any of the new recommended tariffs.”
Everyone who’s been following the president’s campaign knows that reciprocal tariffs were one of his core pledges.
They are “his method for evening the score with foreign nations that place taxes on American goods and to solve what he has said are unfair trade practices.” Even Democrats indoctrinated by public schools can understand the concept.
“They charge us a tax or tariff and we charge them the exact same.” That’s why he’s calling the executive order he signed the “Fair and Reciprocal Plan.” Democrats don’t like “fair.” Practically every nation on the planet we do business with has been taxing our goods all along.
The Pooh Bear gets special treatment. Trump will “be taking into account nations with value-added taxes.” Those, he declared are “far more punitive than a tariff.” He’s ready for a trade war and is convinced he’s going to win it. That’s better than trading nukes, which Joe Biden almost started.
