Thread: Trump insults Japan, Japan Slaps 50% Tariff on U.S. Beef!
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Old 07-31-2017, 12:07 AM  
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Originally Posted by Rochard View Post
Trump doesn't understand the very basics of how any of this works. He's told us this before - He is a salesman who needs to sell things and he sells things by making everything sound "huge" and "grand". He sold us on leaving the TTP because it "sounded good" but in truth he did a huge amount of damage. We now have no partnership with any of the Asian countries - and China was glad to step in and take our place.

I can't stand all of this winning.
He understands 100,000s of jobs leaving the US and going to the Third World means that the US loses tax revenue and increase government costs.

The new jobs created under Obama were mostly low paid who don't pay taxes.
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