As did the price of a can of soup, a can of beer, a car and anything with metal or aluminum in it. And this will spread (and already has) to all other imported products like lumber, plastics, oil, gasoline, some edible items, agricultural products, medicines and everything else. When you start a trade war, when you adopt a hyper-nationalistic and protectionist agenda and apply nonsensical tariffs, you, the end user, the consumer, the person that buys these products will *always* pay the increase in cost.
Always.
Trade war and protectionism contributed heavily, massively, "Yugely and Bigly" to the Great Depression. And attacking and disrespecting our allies, while doing the above results in....
Someone call me when we hit peek "MAGA 'Murica Winning" please.
Signing off as "Bat Bitch". :)
If a man can get elected in this country spewing what can only be called verbal diarrhea then we are in some really serious trouble folks.
ReplyDeleteOh...we "be" in trouble. :)
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