r/MurderedByWords • u/bbrk9845 • 1d ago
Orange cultist believes tariffs will increase job opportunities...
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u/Miri5613 1d ago
Job opportunities, sure their kids can go after school into the fields harvesting crops for less than minimum wage
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u/tw_72 1d ago
Bold of you to assume there will be schools...
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u/Miri5613 1d ago
There are schools now and Florida is already starting with the child labor to replace migrant workers
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u/Sufficient-Toe-6060 1d ago
"The children yearn to return to the mines." I read that here some time ago. What have we become. Kids are supposed to be kids.
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u/InRainWeTrust 1d ago
the US stopped valuing kids the moment they decided to ignore school shootings.
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u/gravtix 1d ago
They care more about unborn kids.
Once you’re born you’re 🖕
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u/FargeenBastiges 1d ago
They care more about unborn kids.
Not really cause they don't give a shit about prenatal care or keeping the mother healthy.
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u/Timmy24000 1d ago
They are being told Trump is a economic genius. And to trust his economic sense there are possibly some businesses that might do better, but overall most people are going to pay pay pay.
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u/reggers20 1d ago
The fact that this is even a discussion is how I know this is the end of the country.
I swear to God!, I never thought there was this many straight stupid Americans just walking around... voting and shit!!!
Tarriffs are soooo fucking basic!!!! They do what they do; which is pretty much make it impossible for foriegn products to out compete domestic products. The revenue generated is mostly irrelevant.
Tarriffs don't encourage shit! If it's cheaper to ship shit across the ocean compared to making it around the block; NO amount of tariffs is going to change that! You just won't have that product anymore.
People talking about jobs!!!! how stupid can you be!!! China is struggling to maintain is production and gdp growth and they have 1.2billion people! How the hell do you think were gonna fare if we try and rely on 350million people to produce enough product to support an economy that is larger than China's!!!!
We are cooked on so many levels! Its hilarious to watch in real time but not a good kind of hilarious; a really dark, Donnie Darko kind of hilarious.
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u/BothRequirement2826 1d ago
I saw a Youtube comment celebrating the "fact" that Trump shifted the tax burden from the American individual to foreign countries.
They really have no clue whatsoever how tariffs work, do they?
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u/HellaTroi 1d ago
The last time tariffs that were not nearly as heavy were put in place, we got the great depression.
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff and the Great Depression
https://www.cato.org/blog/smoot-hawley-tariff-great-depression
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u/Ateaseloser 1d ago
its kinda mindblowing that the argument is they are okay with "temporarily suffering" through this if it means what trump promised.... spoiler.... the temporary suffering isnt temporary.
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u/rodgee 1d ago
6-12 years is pretty temporary on an economic scale.
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u/esotericimpl 1d ago
The Hiroshima bomb was literally over in 30 seconds so pretty temporary on your day scale.
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u/MySophie777 1d ago
Sure, we'll just start manufacturing car parts and electronics tomorrow morning.
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u/Dom252525 1d ago
There fooling themselves if they think it will lead to more manufacturing jobs down the line. It’s going to push companies into more automation. The people that will be needed to maintain those machines will need to be skilled labor. More automation was inevitable but now the work force won’t have time to transition.
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u/StevenMC19 1d ago
I mean, WJFinlay isn't wrong.
Hear me out...
Unemployment will skyrocket, meaning you'll likely be a part of that group. As a result, your net spending will reduce, meaning you'll have less sales tax. Also, since you're unemployed, less income tax.
Once someone competent takes office and rights the ship again (whether by democratic or revolutionary means), there are going to be LOADS of jobs!
/s
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u/Jet2work 1d ago
they just dont get that every import just went up by a minimum of 10%... but of course american companies will build plant to fill the gap overnight
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u/esotericimpl 1d ago
And if they built it in America the price stil only beats the tariff import.
Also why would a business build a factory when captain orangeshipants is liable to change his mind in a week.
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u/Ziggy_has_my_ticket 1d ago
"down the line." Because 10 birds on the roof are worth more than 1000 eggs in the supermarket.
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u/GuruBuckaroo 1d ago
Is this a case of Poe's Law? WJFinlay may be saying "Your taxes are going to go down because your income is going to go through the toilet, and you're job opportunities will be because your current jobs will be going away"? That's the way I read it. Then again, I have no context for who this guy is. I mean Poe's Law definitely fits this scenario.
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u/Lower_Razzmatazz5470 1d ago
What's the thing that happened in the semis recent ghost in the shell anime?
All debt was erased I think
At this point I wouldn't put it past Elmo Putz and Donnie Jalopy Tramp to actually force something like that or instigate a fire of some us city to by shitloads of usable land on the cheap then build some slightly above apartment block like the UK and eastern Europe have or something else bois let's brainstorm the collapse of society
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u/TraditionalSpirit636 1d ago
Not even a conspiracy.
Look at the stats before and after the 2008 crash.
Rich fucks get richer. Poor folks rent.
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u/KeyPressure3132 1d ago
+ added markup on a product to cover those tarifs. Do these idiots actually believe that foreign manufaturers will pay for american idiocy?
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u/OlcasersM 1d ago
I don’t know why Dems aren’t out there calling this a sales tax. Maybe they just suck
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u/MissUnderstood62 1d ago
A 6 Trillion dollar tax increase, largest in history. Gotta pay for the billionaires tax cut somehow. Stay safe everyone it’s going to be a hard landing.
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u/Top_Health_4934 1d ago edited 1d ago
trade deficit equals to tarrif is the hilarious shit that one can conjure up..even for the 2nd of April .. that too.!
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u/spotolux 1d ago
Even if manufacturing jobs return, they won't be in the same number they used to be in the mid 20th century because new factories will be heavily automated, and the end consumer prices will be higher. Plus, unions were strong in manufacturing in the past which ensured the jobs paid well and had benefits. The states where the cost of labor is lowest in the US also doesn't have strong organized labor presence, and state legislatures opposed to organized labor.
So even if this tariff gambit works to bring back manufacturing, which it probably won't do significantly, the jobs won't be that many, they won't pay that well, and costs Will still be higher.
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u/JinkyRain 1d ago
The unemployed week certainly pay less taxes.
People working shit jobs that were held by people who got deported will pay less tax than other jobs.
Uneducated, unskilled kids will be doomed to crap jobs slaving away for tips or gentle commissions instead of living wages.
There will be plenty of "job opportunities" that don't pay enough to survive on.
Dunno how they think they're going to pay for their billionaire tax cuts/subsidies, standing military, militant police/prison systems and interest on our debt, without tourism revenue, educated workers, cheap migrant labor and tech/science advances once smart people flee the country.
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u/Ozymandiiass 23h ago
Technically Yes they will get a lot of jobs which no one will want to do in dirt price salaries. There is reason why factories were shifted to developing countries.
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u/wasted-degrees 1d ago
Speedrun to the economic collapse so the rich folk can buy up all the foreclosures.
Or, until money loses all value and the poors riot and resort to burning literally everything because fuck it, we’re all gonna die anyway.
One of those.