This is going to be so great for the economy.
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Niiiice. Let those union Trump voters suffer. Maybe they can go pick lettuce for $2/hr.
Wait till they learn about how much less they’ll make picking blueberries and tomatoes. Lettuce will be like caviar for monies.
When the US interned the those with Japanese ancestors during WWII, nobody else stepped in to take over their crops. The result were shortages instead of a change in who did the work.
Which is what happened much more recently in Florida and Georgia when those states passed draconian immigration bills. Produce was left rotting in the fields because nobody else besides these immigrants are willing to do the job for the wages offered. And nobody is going to pay $20 for a head of lettuce in the grocery store so the farmers can pay fieldworkers white man's wages.
either way we'll have war rationing soon enough.
Or maybe they'll start paying a good wage.
I ain't paying $16 for a head of lettuce!!
Don’t worry, I’m sure those immigrants will be the one paying for the lack of cheap labor …. Somehow
what is your understanding of how this could happen
Are you familiar with the concept of "unions"? It's a similar principle, starve the company of labor, the company pays more.
please complete your thought. are you saying the tariffs starve the company of labor?
I think that I replied to the wrong comment, odd.
All the factories are in foreign countries. Looks like they might start building them here
Actually they're spread across the US, Canada, and Mexico, with parts crossing borders many times during the course of manufacture. All this does is make the whole system in North America non-viable. So Chinese manufacturers will take over the world market, and Americans will be left with inferior overpriced options like Soviet citizens in the 1980s
Now tell us what happens when the world is transitioning to new vehicle technologies with a US company in the lead …. But the Chinese government encourages building out the infrastructure, supply chain and manufacturing while the US government backtracks on the transition, leave it most profitable to stick with old technologies and build cars unsuitable for any other country?
You know, in the future, it might not be a bad idea to learn a little bit about something before you comment on it. Just saying.
Are we winning yet?
have they considered smuggling and bribing CBP?
How about car parts as food containers?